Bill Gates-Backed Carbon Capture Plant Does The Work Of 40 Million Trees
In Squamish, British Columbia, there’s a company that wants to stop climate change by sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
It’s called Carbon Engineering, and it uses a combination of giant fans and complex chemical processes to remove carbon dioxide from the air in a procedure known as Direct Air Capture.
Direct Air Capture isn’t new, but Carbon Engineering says its technology has advanced enough for it to finally make financial sense.
The company is backed by Bill Gates - but also by the oil giants Chevron, BHP, and Occidental. These partnerships will bring Carbon Engineering’s tech to market by using the captured carbon to make synthetic fuels and and help extract more oil from the ground.
Will Carbon Engineering’s technology decrease the amount of CO2 in the air, or is it going to prolong our dependence on fossil fuels?
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Damn, even the tree's are losing their jobs to technology.
atleast the tree's are doing it with no cost..
ehm.. what about oxigen
Lol plants produce oxygen that this plant doesn't
@@rheyreoyan4838 I think growing 40 million trees would be very expensive.
@@johnperic6860 I'm not knocking planting trees, I'm just saying it isn't cheap. From what I looked up, it took Ecosia 10 years to plant about 60 million trees and one of the tech plants replaces 40 million and they need thousands of these plants to reach carbon zero. That means we would need to plant trillions of trees planted in something like 20-30 years.
Stop showing steam release as carbon dioxide emissions 🙄
THANK you for point this out. The problem is that "steam" is much more dramatic than odorless, colorless CO2.
Jack Tay Hwang Chiat But that’s because it’s the only type we can see
@@rob1248996 What are you nuts? Steam doesn't have a thing to do with global warming any more than the sun does, silly! (Edit) To those of you who are just too f*ckin' dense, this should be clearly understood as sarcasm.
Was the water heated to steam with nuclear or solar? If not it was with the burning of fuel.
@@PapaWheelie1 can't tell from the videos, but kids looking out at a nuclear/hydro plant will be saying look dad, its making co2
So far the best solution I’ve seen involves growing seaweed on the open ocean. The ocean is a vast unused source of solar energy. If captured through photosynthesis it can be the best most economical carbon sink. I think the problem with direct air capture is the extreme high cost when compared with other more natural types of carbon capture. To me this is an over engineered solution which is in fact not scalable to the size which is necessary to do serious carbon capture.
i think if they were capturing atleast 40% of annual co2 that would be a great benefit to our nature and if the carbon emmisions does down it can capture 100% annually if not more i think it is scalable if you build many plants all around the world but it is hard and takes alot of money wich is in the pockets of nasty oil companies
I like the idea of putting these in desert areas to be powered by solar and windy areas to be wind powered. Then these could be carbon negative. I dont actually know why these would be good to run 24/7 since hot air has more co2 in it anyway but im not an engineer
@@luisostasuc8135 i think these should be build in areas where co2 is the highest and is hurting the wild life most That way you would get most efficiency and also most benefit for wildlife
@@luisostasuc8135 Imagine being the Maintenance crew living jn the desert 🌵?
@@GloriaTheAnimator nature needs co2 to thrive. How is this helping nature?
they placed this thing out in the middle of the woods instead of near an industrial area? geniuses...
And how much CO2 was released manufacturing all the equipment and transportation for employees to the facility everyday ??? Probably another windmill scam , they cost more to put up and maintain then take down once stop working than they ever produce
@@jeremywatkins4297 Can you provide me reliable numbers on this claim? Large public infrastrcuture can last 40-60 years. How are you claimining that all capital and operational carbon output is more than the carbon captured over the lifetime?
Does not matter, Co2 get mixed with the entire earth atmosphere.
@@dixion1000 it does matter actually. trees breathe co2. concrete and buildings do not breathe co2. why take co2 from trees when you could place this facility directly next to emitters? why dont they just build a giant shade or cloud machine to block the sun so the trees grow slower and cannot absorb as much co2....oh wait they already do that.
@@anti-them4383 CO2 Gass concentration in the air is largely not a local thing. It very quickly evens out. It's a global problem, not local. The place of capture is therefore not important. These guys know what they're doing.
Imagine not being able to photosynthesize food with the CO2 you captured *_This post was made by tree gang_*
Oh there’s plenty at the moment
Man I keep scrolling down to the comments on these recommended vids and keep seeing your name
Night Shade Do the research before you make incorrect comments!
Tree gang for life
Night Shade We’d have to moderate the plant, once we get the C02 to a stable level just operate the filter plants by season?
Let's build these machines AND plant trees. Why is everyone so either or?
Joel who cares about trees pff
This seems crazy, so you use machines to take carbon dioxide out of the air reducing the natural supply plants need to grow. Whoops...less plants equals less oxygen and food for all animals including humans. Then what? We build oxygen making machines? I hope you can see where I am going with this.
@@PaulHilliam Thats not how it works. You know that we have too much co2 right?
Its either or, because we only get X amount of money to either plant or build machines.
The fossil fuel industry has convinced voters it's better to stick it to the libs with Ronald Reagan on a raptor.
Meanwhile in other parts of the world we have a car tire fires (where they store old tires) burning 24 hours a day for years and no one mentions it. Did you ever see a car tire burn? It looks like about the nastiest pollution in the world.
lets not forget about the 45 coal fires in Pennsylvania that have been burning for quite a while 100+ coal fires world wide OVER 3.5 million leaking abandon methane wells in the US .. Massive Leak from Socal Gas ( Aliso Canyon gas leak) back in 2015/16
This needs WAY MORE attention. Why isn't that in my daily google news feed. Who cares which celebrities are getting married or having a baby. Tell us about the real stuff going on in the world that's quietly being swept under the rug.... Or in this case, burned Under the tire fires
In South Africa burning tyres are a ritual done in protesting against the government while voting the same people into power every election.
There are coal mines burning too. Some, for decades!
Thats sulphur
“Its just chemistry” I was hoping for full explanation about how it works in detail, like which liquids etc. Ill put that on my list to do research when i have time
If you understood the chemistry you would understand this is a farce. They is no net removal if CO2. They start with CaCO3, remove the CO2 with coal burning, which produces CO2 into the atmosphere in China, and then “capture” it again in the USA. The net effect is to INCREASE the total CO2 in the atmosphere.
@@VonVladimierVoltar No thanks China has switched to emission free coal buring powerplant long time ago
What I want to know is how much it pollutes the river nearby
@@VonVladimierVoltar yeah that just doesn’t even work at all. If they want to take that CO2 out of the air, they better just trap it on a molecule like calcium carbonate to then store that. Thanks for saving my time!
@@jcgongavoe337emmision free? If china has that technology, then why dont the richer countries use that as well? Since filling the pipes of a burning facility with all kinds of materials to filter out all chemicals and gasses is extremely expensive. Over here mist burning facilities only have filters to catch harmful toxins and chemicals. So if CO2 filter tech exists, why isnt it here in Western Europe?
This should be used in conjunction with planting trees everywhere because we still need to promote habitats for a better eco structure.
We can’t anymore there’s way too many people take cali for example there are more people there than in Canada that should put the overpopulation issue in perspective
@@chef6467 too many people for what? Your comfort?
I feel like ecosystem would have worked too
this method is anti nature human are nothing compared to the nature so when humans try bent to nature to their whims and fancies ....that just dosent always workout well The problem that i see here is humans are going REALLY materialistic.The graph is going off the charts be less materialistic
That's really what this is about forget buy into our job reducing tech
Planting trees is good idea to remove CO2 from the air. Not cutting them down en-mass in the Amasonas could be even better.
People demand is greater than our worry of global warming. Cutting down the amazon forest in the short run provide food and resource to the people but in the long run long term damage to the environment.
Sekir80 IKR Brazil's voters just gave the world the finger when they elected Bolsanaro. Mostly driven by the Christian Right and the super rich.
Both comments are kinda depressing...
Michael RCH you're tripping man... Stop parroting bs.
Trees do it naturally without the need to build other plants. I would never trust an oil company to do the right thing
How much did this plant cost to build and run? How much energy does it use? How many trees could be planted with all of that money without using nearly as much energy? Asking for a friend...
It cost like 1B to make and to run I guess wouldn’t cost that much. You can just use renewable or Nuclear energy to power it so No carbon. 1B dollars could plant Atleast 100M trees. It’s that you need to wait a couple of decades to get them to the status of sucking co2 and hope there’s no forest fire.
You are denying the science how dare you
@@supergamergrill7734 A tree sucks CO2 from the first day since otherwise it wouldn't be able to grow.
Do you guys realize that the ocean puts out a 100 times more co2 than all humans and the factories, coal mines, and everything we use in one year. Time for a new gameplan unless you can control the ocean. Time to do your own homework and stop listening to the media fill your heads with garbage . Follow the money. They move billions of dollars through this program and tell you the world is gonna stop in ten years. Remember when al gore said the earth was gonna have serious issues in ten years then ten years went by and he said in ten more years we are gonna suffer extreme consequences and that never happened then ten more years went by and same story same out come. Its getting old folks. its funny watching tree huggers go through this crap and its all because of what they were told by politicians who are all basically failures in real life and that was the only thing they could do, go on and lie to people about how they would make the world a better place with false promises.
but do those trees outpace these plants in carbon capture for the same cost? asking for a friend
"This carbon capture plan does the work of 40 million trees." Hmm, why do I find myself not believing that at all. Like, at all!
cause its probably just another scam to make quick money from investors with
Looks like a big Graphics Card !
😂😂😂😂
Specifically from 2008
Does it run crisis though?
It is probably cheaper than a 2080ti
Yeah the big oil companies need it to run their illusion at max frame-rate..
Breaking: Trees form a union protest.
photosythnesis intensifies
I think it would be more of a breaking news that there is actually a tree left in Earth. Don’t humans hate those things as they have deforested every one of them to extinction yet?
if a city is going to invest in this dont put that in the middle of nowhere. put them along the freeways where most pollution comes from. or make factories with smoke stacks be responsible for their own smoke, make them filter their air before it goes back into the air. semi trucks could also stand up and be responsible for their own smoke. make systems can can be integrated to cars, factories and top of homes chimneys if needed. stop the smoke b4 it happens not after. what kind of back words thinking is this? make everyone accountable, start with major businesses.
"They terk err jerbs!" - resident of South Park, Colorado
Reversal of desertification is essential. Bare ground = hot planet.
And reversal of glaciers as well
@@captainlockes2344 are you saying reversal of glaciers is essential?
@@downbntout I meant reversing the melting of glaciers. The melting of glaciers means higher sea level and also exposing the dark earth which absorbs more sunlight causing more heat.
@@captainlockes2344 agree, that's true
The sad thing is much of this deforested land is permanently locked under concrete buildings and roads.
40 million trees are worth more that just air quality. Cheaper to plant trees than to build/maintain infrastructure. Even if trees take longbto grow, this is a longer term solution than this bandaid solution.
I agree that trees are worth more right now AND down the line. This technology could potentially grow though, so I am happy that someone is looking into this. I'm just saying don't disregard the importance of the work in this particular field.
Trees are a renewable resource.
@@Ghst-tl9ec they should be renewed more
@@krokodilpil8335 I agree, now go plant some trees...
@@Ghst-tl9ec its spring here. Already planting new things this weekend. Need to find out how planting trees works in a city.
Trees should unionize otherwise they are going to lose their jobs.
That's what that movie was about from M.Night Shamalan
Autonation > unions
Their is a way they can absorb 20 times more carbon dioxide more efficiently it involves a lot of biology
LapisMiner Do you mean chemistry?
This plant doesn't produce oxygen.
Mr Beast: Plants a whole forest Bill: *It’s big brain time*
Mr Plants 20 mill trees but does he protect them till they grow ?
@@kaiwalyaghotkar832 the arbor Day foundation does along with forestry service
i see many people suggesting planting trees, but this is not a solution. Though the trees will capture some of the carbon from the air at the beginning , over time they actually release it back into the atmosphere and just a small part is kept into the soil. So they are not as efficient as people think. Check this video for more an example of why trees are not the best solution kzhead.info/sun/n8qoaLyAfnh3fIk/bejne.html
@@danielstan2301 This will make pollution way worse. They had to have known that when they started this project... are they trying to destroy earth? Co2 is not putting holes in the ozone and its not a chemical thats foreign to our environment like aerosols. Co2 is natural and the more thats in the air the faster and larger plants will grow. Plants always produce more oxygen when you give them more co2. Heck pot farmers pump co2 into their greenhouses. Makes the fruit huge and they grow faster.
@@sp-fz1mn they dont understand basic science, CNN has to tell them what science to believe
Does it provide food wildlife, shelter for birds, roots that stabilize the hillsides? Plant trees.
Planting trees is an extremely longterm project that offers no guarantee as well. Multiple studies have shown it could take 50 to 100 years for billions of trees to impact climate change and that's under the assumption that climate change is not progressing faster than the impact of trees themselves. Plus the increasing wildfires makes them more of a detriment (releasing carbon back into the atmosphere) than a benefit. These carbon dioxide sucking power plants could offer much better control and stabilization in a short time. Stabilizing the atmosphere could lead to less droughts which then leads to more natural regrowth along with fewer wildfires. Not denying that we need to regrow and expand areas with trees. But we also have to consider technology to offset the ever-growing population of humans and their immediate impact on the climate. Trees are not an immediate solution and they may not be a permanent one either.
At this point, we are so out of options for climate change that I’d say we should do anything and everything we can.
"DA EVUL SEYENTISTS GONNA REPLACE DA TREES WITH MASHINES!" - the idiots in this comment section. Only thing you know about trees is smoking them.
One thing you never hear about is perma frost, the Savannah style grass lands in the Arctic circle captures just as much if not more carbon than trees and traps it under ground with almost zero cost
Perma frost is melting and releasing a lot of CO2 plus solid methane off gassing.
Except that we are taking the "perma" out of permafrost with each passing year. And as it thaws, MORE CO2 and methane are released.
Exactly. Soil holds a shitton of carbon. We should be investing in turning the deserts back into the grasslands they once were.
@@gussampson5029 - Yes, indeed, but we should also be investing in turning IOWA back into the grassland it was. Poor farming practices result in completely unnecessary loss of soil carbon in the Corn Belt, among other agricultural regions. We don't have to go to deserts or tundra to find opportunities for greater carbon sequestration in soils!
@@joeanonimous1105 I agree. Regenerative agriculture is the way to go. Better for carbon, better for soil and better for keeping farmers out of debt.
Mr beast: I'm gonna plant 20million trees! Bill Gates: Hold my beer.
Kamakazecory weird how I got this after mr.beast 20mil tree plan😂
Kamakazecory mr beast is so stupid
Warsin It’s not going to fix climate change, but it’s the right step in the right right direction.
@@warsin8641 the one being stupid in here is you. That guy spend his time, effort, money and fame for planting trees. Its a petition from his fan and gladly agreed on it. I petty you.
For goodness sake trees helps in so much way than regulating oxygen.
We need this technology AND planting more trees. Trees do so so much more than just sequester CO2 from the air.
Simple answer, there is not enough space. World avarage carbon footprint of a person is 5 ton per year and rising. This would mean that to counteract humans carbon footprint, every single human on earth would need to plant 250 trees right now. Oh, that is considering that they all survive, but we should assume that only 50% of them will do with such a large project. So everyone needs to plant 500 trees to make sure at least 250 survives. Good luck with finding land suitable to plant all those trees. You need about 27% of the whole land area of the world for that. Empty and suitable for planting trees. Oh btw, 33% of the world land is made up of deserts. 11% is used for agriculture. 3% is taken by cities and roads. 31% is already taken by existing forests. 9% is Antarctica so forget about planting there. Most of the remaining 13% is made up of high mountains and land not suitable for planting trees. You can maybe squeeze out 5% from there to plant trees. So well, unless you have a magical solution to turn deserts into green land, i can't see how planting trees would work. You should also not forget that human populatin is growing rapidly and carbon footprint per person is still increasing as the 3rd world countries are going into rapid development. Soon, even if you somehow miraculously turned all desert land into forests, it may still not be enough...
-BR- N0xiety I agree with you. Also worth mentioning is that the carbon footprint of a person varies from country to country so that makes the numbers even more complex compares to the (what I would call) conservative numbers you’ve provided. But like I’ve said above, trees do so much more than reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. They prevent soil erosion, provide oxygen, provide habitat for wildlife, have symbiotic relationships with other fauna in the ecosystem etc. There are many many reasons to plant trees native to a biome.
thats what theyre saying
Yes, they breathe carbon dioxide to live. How will the trees you plan to plant live if they will not have enough carbon dioxide to breathe?
We have lots of trees, especially in the US. We have trees in neighborhoods everywhere. From a distance some towns look like forests
Imagine plopping a couple of these around Los Angeles.
I imagine the residents would appreciate being able to breathe for a change
Yep and as the O level falls so will the people; killing fields!!
As a sustainability architect the views of those against this technology are myopic. There must be a "transition" platform to migrate to fully renewable methods. It cannot happen overnight. If we simply adopt renewable technology 100% from today forward we are NOT addressing residual CO2 levels currently evident within the atmosphere. Action needs to be made at all levels, existing CO2 reduction, current CO2 minimisation and future CO2 elimination. Getting petrochemical companies involved is a no brainer in this "transition" phase. Plant trees, healthy soil, use of ocean vegetation (kelp forests), better farming practices, developing renewable systems, capture of CO2 from existing energy generation and removal of existing CO2 from our environment are ALL CRITICAL. Industry alone will NOT fund this technology given there is no financial benefit. All developed countries need to contribute funding to this as a MORAL imperative.
That's why it's so frustrating that a lot of activists are against NG. Not only is NG cleaner, but it's the *perfect* complement to renewable, since it can be quickly scaled up and down as demand and renewable output change. It's a great bridge to grid storage.
Carbon dioxide is as extremely low levels, plants prefer 0.15% CO2 (1500ppm), it’s a massive deception that 0.04% (400ppm) is high, plants die below 0.02% (200ppm). Only indoctrinated fools think CO2 is anything more than plant food and essential to the CARBON cycle. How about you reduce real pollution like sulphur dioxide, heavy metals and agricultural chemicals. Oh yer, it’s not about pollution or global warming it’s about controlling the economy.
@@globalbridges8570 These alarmists have bought the whole sky is falling scam. Yes the earth is warming. Thank goodness for that. It's been warming since the last glacial age. Who wants to live in Antarctica or the Arctic ? Humanity shows it's preference for warmer climes through natural population distribution.
"Sustainability Architect" like "Climate Change 'Scientist'" ... a job that relies on there actually being a problem. No problem, no job. Some solutions simply create more problems. Many over look the true problem in favour of something seen as an easier fix. Foe example, it is not plastic that is the problem, it is how we handle waste. Some technological solutions are simply the wrong solution. Wind for example causes as many problems as it solves. SAI is a technology that would attempt to inject calcium carbonate into the atmosphere in order to reflect sunlight away. The proponents of CO2 based AGW seem to forget that CaCO3 breaks down to CO2. CO2 is a gas as essential to life as oxygen yet you want to put it in the hands of others. It would be like giving the government control of the oxygen you breathe. As a sustainability architect, how much CO2 do you think should be in the atmosphere. Are you qualified to do that job without knowing that even the C4 classification plants, that is those that have evolved to exist in the low CO2 world we live in and make up less than 20% of the worlds current plants, are only just in a sufficient CO2 environment ?The remaining 80% of C3 and below plants, evolved in atmospheres with much higher CO2 concentrations, and are still starved of it at the levels we currently enjoy. In the mean time, how "sustainable" are electric cars which require lithium and cobalt extraction at un precedented levels. Or the Giga factories that require the same. Solar ev that requires rare earth materials. Wind farms that require huge amounts of copper that must be extracted from the ground. While at the same time inflicting environmental catastrophes. Or the destruction of habitats in order to feed the myth of animal toxicity. Can you truly say anything about "Sustainability" if you believe and propagate the lies of the one sided narrative, without discussing and understanding the alternative views? What are you going to do when we have to start expending energy heating chalk to put more CO2 into the air inorder to sustain our ecology destroyed as much by misinformed do-gooders as by thise who profit from it (or when Gates makes a bigger fortune by selling back CO2 to sustain nature)? Open your eyes. Or more to the point open your mind. Nobody is against technology. The asinine use of technology yes, technology no. So let's build a big machine that removes an essential, life giving gas from the atmosphere. What can go wrong?
I agree. They are creating another hurdle, which is sick, if they really believe that climate change is an issue!
Capture CO2 with this crazy hack! (Trees hate this trick!) No really, trees actually do hate it.
It's like they actually want to foment a global extinction event.
@@GentlemanBystander you do know there is this amazing futuristic technology called the "off-switch", right?
@@midnight8341 Your lack of knowledge on the subject should, in a rational world, preclude you from ever commenting on it.
@@GentlemanBystander I mean, I'm majoring in plant physiology and molecular genetics, but yeah, keep telling me how I don't know anything about plants. Or a simple off-switch for that matter... Gosh, you climate change deniers really are a crazy bunch and beyond any arguments...
@@midnight8341 Really, and you don't know that plants optimally prefer atmospheric ranges of 800 - 1500 ppm atmospheric CO2 and we're currently sitting at ~440 ppm which is dangerously close to the 330 - 380ppm plant asphyxia range? That's kind of a statement about how woefully inept and incestuous our post-secondary education system is.
Planting many trees sounds more beneficial, but I still support this technology. I think we need a mix of solutions working in tandem. Also, I'm not an expert and neither are you.
Well said
Yeah the world could use more trees, but I've planted a few of those in my time and none of them are taller than me yet, these plants have got to be quicker to implement
Who's going to do it? Sometimes the most Utopian idea isn't the best one. Economics and politics is a reality that has to be dealt with, and Utopian ideas always seem to ignore this. If CO 2 can be captured effectively with a plant and then turned into a product then that's great. There is is already a tree planting business out there that grows them and turns trees in to timber and other products. While other companies plant trees to offset their CO 2 this will only go so far. It's going to take a mix of solutions to help bring CO 2 in to reverse and if money from oil companies can make this happen faster then that's better than having a whinge and having nothing happen at all.
But I am, A Sexpert.
The problem is the land, if we were to solve our CO2 problem in 2010 we would need. 1,545,000,000,000 trees now the question is where will we plant them ? There's not enough room on earth to plant those trees unless we demolish our houses and farms .Our CO2 problem can't just be solved with just planting plants, we need to also cut down the carbon emission but who'll do that? It's not easy as it sounds, most vehicle emits CO2 and all of the animals also produce CO2 and most country still uses fossil fuel power plant. It's sad but it's the truth, most people haven't realise or doesn't care about how important it is to cut down the CO2 emission.
Good to have people researching this stuff but we have deforested such big areas around the world that we need to replant and recreate biodiversity for our environment to become more resilient to human impact. in other words the industrial removal of carbon is a one trick pony while a forest is a holistic approach.
Wouldn't it be great to see a small one of these on the roof of every house? Just sitting there, sucking out all the CO2 from the atmosphere.
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, people it's easy, balance is how were meant to live, hate it or love it, but greed and ignorance let it get this far
It won't help
I love how CNBC tries to present both sides of the problem, not only just the benefits of the CE, but also pitfalls, and possible consequences.
agreed. well done.
@Ramael Metatron If you were in any other country, the other side would not be represented at all.
@Ramael Metatron The issue with trees is that it only stores carbon into biomass. Once the trees die, the carbon dioxide goes back into the atmosphere. the biomass itself needs to be taken out of the equation.
@@Verisquishy Wut!!??....you are made of biomass...if you take biomass "out of equation" (!?), then the human body, plants and animals (nature itself) ceases to exist!
@@ameyas7726 the oil and coal from underground was old biomass from eons past from trees primarily. We are taking that carbon and putting it in the atmosphere. That extra carbon from that system has now been added to the ecosystem, and we need to put it back
Put it straight on power plants and factories exaust, it will be more effective
You are too smart for this world my friend.
You sir, clearly don't understand how business even small businesses work
Carbon capture coal plants do exist but are more expensive than renewables
Can't we just invent a catalytic converter type mechanism for factories instead of bringing a whole plant there?
Its really not that simple sadly
"... and the CO2 generated from combustion is captured." That's a perpetual motion machine.
Woah!! We have carbon capture machines! I never knew we already have these
They've been using them on submarines for almost a hundred years. Submariners exhale Co2. It has to be captured and scrubbed.
This will only reduce CO2 from the atmosphere. We still need plants for oxygen.
What is the point you're making? Currently there is too much CO2 in the atmosphere, about 420ppm compared to pre-industrial 280ppm. If we were to one day remove CO2 quicker than we produce it, we would probably call it quits at around 280ppm. Thus not destroying photosynthesis on earth. Fun fact, it seems that increased CO2 percentage in the atmosphere is actually having a fertilising effect on plants.
We have a lot of oxygen.
They already created a substitute for the Plant that can produce a oxygen and design for astronaut. But we still need a tree to do the nature way
@@ritwikreddy5670 we won't.
Mixing it up we don’t need any more oxygen after oxygen is like 20 percent of the atmosphere while carbon dioxide is only 0.04 percent of the atmosphere.
I used to plant trees for a living. 30 people can plant 3-4 million trees or more in about 3 months. (depending on the people)
Forget people, there's a tree planting drone company (DroneSeed) that can do it considerably more efficiently. The issue with planting 1+ trillion trees is the sheer amount of fresh water required as well as the effect on the earth's albedo which would actually increase the temperature. Forests also only effectively drain CO2 from the atmosphere for ~30 years before they become a closed cycle emitting precisely as much as they absorb.
It also takes years for those trees to mature, trees are are always great, dont get me wrong im a tree huger if anything, but carbon capturing sounds like a pretty efficient process considering it only takes a few acres of land while being productive as a 40 million tree forest.
Yep, people in India planted 66 million trees in 12 hours
I wish we could plant more trees but theres no space in cities where they are most needed
@@NoName-vl5gr Maybe rooftops if we design buildings to take higher loads or if we use urban farming techniques giving more land back to woodland
Every idea that helps reduce or eliminate completely Co2 emissions out of the atmosphere needed to be backed and encouraged. We need more of them...
the problem is, does it really? or is it just a marketing strategy? When Bill Gates or Elon Musk is involved in something i sense more profit than environmental concerns but that's just me!
@@Geckotr I'm not talking about Bill Gates or Elan Musk or Putin or Fernandel...Let's stop being suspicious and negative about everything, but instead encourage any positive thinking no matter what it comes from.
@@znsaidi I didn't say you're talking about them, i gave those as an example to make a point. Being skeptical is what makes humans survive for the last 3 million yrs. It's the human nature to get suspicious. "I'm only not suspicious that i AM suspicious." Rene Descartes I only stop being suspicious when i see the results
Trees do something other than store carbon. They also stabilize and revitalize the surrounding soil and prevent erosion. They also lower temperature by providing shade and by water evaporation. Not everything is about carbon
Well said.
And the Greenies want to bulldoze every desert, forest, jungle and farmland to lay hectares of unreliable solar panels. This will lead to unprecedented plant and animal habitat destruction. Some environmental movement.
YES but I don't know if you heard in the video that plenty of land is needed and we are running out of that with population growth...The more trees, the more sweet water needed and we are also running out of that...
@@felixvergara5627 I’ve recently read good arguments that say warming is a cause and not a consequence of co2, since in many cases throughout the millennia the earth warmed and then co2 began to rise
I love how there's always people who say negative things lol but take no action into fixing it.
There are lots of attempts to build perpetual motion machines. But we know that these are not permitted by the second law of thermodynamics. This process looks similar to a perpetual-motion machine because the energy need to split the CO2 molecule has to come from somewhere. And there has been no explanation so far how the process solves the second law question. (To explore the second law further check out Wikepedia and check also the term "entropy".) Elsewhere in these comments the process is described in more detail as involving Sodium hydroxide in the process. Makes no difference except in detailed reaction formulas. The question still remains whether or not the entire process takes a net input of energy.
@@fwcolb nuclear power.
@@colossalbreacker That would do it. But most Greens would not accept it.
@@fwcolb The Greens are idiots, but I understand their fear.
Not negative. But tree does multitask not just giving oxygen but shelter for animals and insects, and thus create ecological balance which this plant doesnt. Is thinking about the limitation negative?
Do both Carbon Capture and plant trees.
And use less fossil fuels and more solar/wind energy.
Fruit and nut trees.🌱🌲🌳🌴🌵
Planting trees good, capturing carbon bad. There's is no climate crisis.
yes boss
@@ThekiBoran No climate crisis? Really? You better open your eyes.
How stupid for people(including a professor) to oppose a new technology that's being still developed, based on their obviously limited knowledge and vested interests.
trueee
cuz this is pointless, its a giant fan with a filter, HAHA, im guessing to operate the factory will also produce CO2, and probably require a square mile of solar panels to run it,
Because as said, it's diverting money away from more effective approaches
@@tomlxyz It's research and development. Effectiveness is to be improved and worked upon. Don't be a social justice warrior
@@gregoryeverson741 it would require a lot of energy. If only we had a energy source that produces a lot of energy but little co2.. *Looks at nuclear energy*
Step 1 of being able to tax clean air.
why isn't this direct air capture thingy attached to chimneys of factories giving out CO2 ?
Coal stack already have those. They are called scrubbers. kzhead.info/sun/jN2ycrJtpmavgac/bejne.html&feature=share However scrubbers act like the catalytic converter on your car where they just limit the amount of carbon being released
I had same thought
They want to make it as a big industry and make money. Finally they are going to use that co2.
@Christopher Jennings I didn't say they remove CO2 they limit CO2
@Christopher Jennings "However scrubbers act like the catalytic converter on your car where they just limit the amount of carbon being released."
“It’s difficult to finance these projects” Bill gates: hold my beer
Hardly anything if you look at what’s needed and how much he makes, people just still don’t care
I doubt he has the liquid assets to be a huge player on his own
VenoFuj I know it’s mad isn’t it
kefkapalazzo1 well if gates could fund it and make a difference then he’d contribute massively
@White Aus i'll hold your future unvaccinsted children's casket for you.
Thanks for always including both sides to each of your informative videos! I don't feel as though one side of the coin is shoved down my throat like many other media.
The federal government could mandate planting snake plants or other oxygen producing plant in each household as part of existing building codes despite how silly and ridiculous it sounds.
The Government. Mandate. Boy, have you not been paying attention.
Imagine being thrown in jail for not watering plants you were forced to have. No thanks.
All plants intake CO² and output O². 6 billion snake plants wouldn't sequester even a fraction of the CO² that ten acres of Amazon rainforest does.
Mr.Beast will plant 20 million trees Elon musk: donates 1 million Bill gates: Me: what a time to be alive.
💪Yes!
Mr. Beast made 5 emails, no point putting his name all over this event.
The cited project doesn't even store anything (it's burned again) and it's using natural gas So planting millions of trees wins big time
Mr. Bill Gates got into his wealth by CONNECTIONS and BRIBERY. I see the guy does NOT even understand high school science. I heard some people want to pump carbons into the ground. Well, carbons are building blocks of life. We must thank those who want to remove the building blocks of life. :(
guest guest Nothing you just said is remotely true
Still, we should also stop destroying our forrests and jungles (i.e. the Amazon forrest).
@Alcatraz TM ecosystems are already out of ballance to back you up
Unless you're Brazilian, Peruvian, etc. the Amazon forest isn't "Ours." I agree we have to work on climate change, but people in the tropics have a right to economic development.
Not really, you could cut down trees and replant them.
@@calvinhoward3808 I agree with you, outsiders don't need to change things here, but we south americans need.
The problem is there is too many people on the planet to sustain a natural balance. Yes we could fit more people on the planet but is it good to do so? I see all these things about social justice but what about the future of this planet and the human species. Does gender really matter if it’s a 130 degrees outside. The problem is there are too many sheep and no decent herders.
I prefer trees millions times more. They are beautiful, they keep the moisture in the ground. They give a home and an environment for many other plants and for the animals and birds. Also, if you want to have water plant trees. You plant life not just trees.
They will also cool the environment.
It will be interesting to see what impact on trees this will have.
I found a fur tree sapling a few years ago . I wanted to grow my own Christmas tree . I planted it close to the edge of a creek . It ended up growing crooked so I left it where it was . It is now keeping the soil from eroding when it floods .🤗
Don't stop Josh! Become a environmental conservationist and ecologist and travel around the world bro and save our planet!!!! I believe in ya :^D Don't be like your peers, rise above them and be extraordinary!
Be sure to brush and comb your fur trees otherwise they'll mat especially after air drying after a bath.
Keep planting trees. Every tree helps.
Trees are awesome....
crooked trees have alot of character! They can often right themselves over time while keeping a cute crook.
Plot twist- This carbon plant is built where once stood a forest.
Is it 40 million trees? Lol
The entire planet was covered with forest at one point or another, so technically yes, but no.
Its definitely a plain m8 since it's near a lake
@@davecullins1606 so ur implying humans should just die?
@@brendanyazzie2774 Why do *you* get to decide what _I_ mean by my message?
You know trees use co2 to make oxygen you know that thing we need to live
Saving the earth shouldn't hafto compete with federal funding... It should just be something we do... Why does saving the earth cost anything? Without the earth... There's no money...
There is a reason why we need trees bro. Photosynthesis. Medicine.
Before you know it, robots will take over photosynthesis too.
Taus Ul Bari technology can be used as medicine too.
@@aceshadowins1310 yea bro for sure I won't mind to order a robot with some extra titanium and silver topping. Who eats fruits tho? Lmao
i doubt their plan is to replace trees
The problem with trees are they're organic. Organics have a tendency to die. Plus trees takes years to grow and they're slow at it! Robots can be mass produced. We have the technology to fix the world, but they're expensive as hell though.
I think I’d prefer 40 million trees 🌳
Yeah i would too but trees take time and space but u can put as many carbon capture plants all around the world and still have space
Why not both?
@@wastes-000 'trees take up space'.. That's kind of dumb...
Ankit Gosain Personally, a better argument would be time. Trees could take years if not decades for it to fully develop. The time to build a carbon captures would be a fraction in comparison to fully grown trees. It is better to do both. Build carbon captures plants while planting and growing millions of trees are in the process.
why not both. we must do everything we can to help this planet and its environment.
Energy conservation? How does this method compare to bamboo if you take the space for solar panels and "the chemistry" into account? And how much water does it take to remove 1kg co2? (water polluted with chemicals is probably worse than evaporation/usage by plants)
I think that if there were 10 of these machines in each state then it might work on clean air. And give the trees a chance to grow and take over the work.
Hey dimwit,trees need sunlight to grow
Message to companies: THIS DOES NOT MEAN YOU CAN GO AROUND DOING MORE MASS DEFORESTATION.
With Bill Gates founding it, I dont think theres will ever be enough will power to stop them
Underrated
@@xraaurusreal97 Bruhhhhhhh
well covid is saving earth at least thats a thumbs up
No. We need animals and trees and plants to be there. But we should put like 2 or 3 of these things in every city. it will at least capture the CO2 from our cars. which is good. n if the system is sufficient enough to capture co2 i don't see a problem burning fossil fuel. Nothing is being Damaged. so what's the issue here? you know.
These plants are cool, but they will never replace the abilities of 🌳s. 🌳s stabilize soil, absorb solar radiation, and provide oxygen.
True, but I don’t think that’s what they were trying to say. I think they were simply showcasing the efficiency of the machine
I think they were just trying to help a little, we have so much co2 in the air right now, the trees are like a fat dude on an all you can eat buffet at mcd, and they can't take it all in, so we need to help them, especially since we add more co2 all the time
Tree is a carbon sink, when they die they release the CO2 back.
We could do all of that with technology lol
I hope this won’t be an excuse to continue to destroy trees around the world
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben was super eye opening. Trees are very misunderstood 🌲
How much energy is required to do this? And does that actually represent a net decrease in impact crom burning fossil fuels????
Fair question, you won't get them in any of these videos...
why do you hate green technology? what do you insist on murdering the planet? stop asking questions u bigot.
@@chrishayes5755 it's a viable question to be asked ofcourse, if it takes more pollution to remove the pollution Ur trying to remove it's not worth it at all
Depends on how you produce the electricity, hydroelectric or nuclear power is fossil free (ignoring emissions during build-phase of course but then again, wind turbines and solar panels has those emissions as well)
@@chrishayes5755 you are one of those who belive A Wind turbine is good for the enviroment
Pro tip: watch the whole video before commenting, tons of these comments are addressed in the latter 2/3 of the video
Andy Chamberlain Music thank you for using your head. You are a rare breed within these comments
Andy Chamberlain Music Latter
A rare breed indeed you are.
I can NOT stand these BIG DEMONS (bill gets, oil industry, ...)
Ah, the "presumption of intelligence" fallacy. Most of these fuckbrained dipshits don't have the attention span to gain the knowledge, they just want to be mad about something on the internet. We put a serious damper on natural selection, and the result is what you read in a large percentage of people commenting on KZhead.
Year 2019: **Strike** We need less CO2 Year 3000: **Strike** Leave some CO2 for the trees
Sepehr Sattari ther will be no population left
I can see this as an actual strike in the future which is funny
I bet the humane rase won't live to year 3000
Mahn u realy hv sm serious humour in u 😅
I don't think human will survive till 2150
What is cheaper? Spending $100 per tone of CO2 capturing or having all coastal cities drowned.
Great idea 💡 I think every house should have a carbon capture on the roof.
Every house in my country already has natural sustainable and ecofriendly carbon eating machines called TREES! You know, something that eats co2 and releases oxygen in return plus gives juicy fruits?
Every house should have trees in their yards, not just a big empty lawn of grass that's pretty and only because you're in competition with your neighbors who has the greener nice lawn. Trees are much better. They grow vertically providing more carbon capture given the same area of land. It's the same efficiency of an apartment building able to hold many more people than a single story ranch home.
Planting more trees doesnt only help reduce carbon dioxide but also provide natural habitat to animals which we have destroyed over the years... Oil companies are shifting the focus only to CO2 but other damages we are doing to earth is not considered... Has anyone taken into account the kind of damage done to environment by offshore and onshore drilling activities and oil exploration
trees take years to grow we can deal with that problem later. carbon capturing this is apparently something that needs to be done now
Yes.
@Rishi In North America we have more trees than ever before in recorded human history. We don't have a shortage of trees being planted. Perhaps if you live in India where there has not been proper farming methods to avoid soil erosion and desertification.....I understand there may be a shortage of trees there. However, just planting some and walking away won't help.....as they won't have enough water and nutrients to grow there.
Trees take up too much land
@@laertesindeed No! We have enough Nutrients and Water to plant required trees ... And we have already been doing it from more than past 2 decades and it has resulted in Greener planet.. India and China has majority contribution i.e. more than 1/3rd in acchiving those Green results .. and guess what these are the reports from NASA (just incase you may not agree to accept any report from Eastern sources).. Tree planting programs around the world - led by India and China - are helping to add about 5 percent more greenery year over year since the 2000s. That’s totaled out to about 2 million square miles I.e. more than the Amazon rainforest. BTW we may have more population but we make way less pollution than your country .. for reference global CO2 released from US is "15.53 metric tons" (highest in the world) compared to India's "1.58 metric ton".
This technology should be implemented in paired with major city roads and industrial complex that emits the most CO2 to make it effective.
Hendro H agreed!!
Your smart
I actually feel this should be miniaturized and put in cars and all carbon emitters rather than put up plants. This would be a more preventive measure coz the industrial size juts would take all the carbon in the air and on some level in nature, there should be existing carbon in the air.
@@marzadky4934 Agreed.. I guess sooner or later the technology would be possible to miniaturize the size to become part of cars exhaust.. We should collaborate on researching and patenting that technology and make tons of money.. 👍😁
These Co2 plants don't need to be near every road to be effective just built in the lowest places as C02 is heavy and seeks the lowest place possible !
Crazy how the government ignores this, almost like they want to have control on who gets to charge their electric vehicles. Digging up the lithium to make these electric vehicles does worst then gas vehicles ever will.
Y tf is no one talking about nuclear power!? It is one of the cleanest fuels
Everyone: How to stop global warming while making profit? Bill Gates: Yes.
lmfao yea right, there's no profit here.
lmao =))
@Drew Stanek if more energy is going into the process than there is energy being resulted from it, it is not profitable. Thus, it is not sustainable.
@Drew Stanek the process is cheaper than expected, which doesn't mean that it's profitable.
It’s clever. The PR campaign will still keep oil companies running strong because of the co2 scare. It’s security
Partnering with oil companies is just a way for fossil fuel producers to say that they found a solution and there is no need for closing fossil fuel plants.
True . At the same time they are getting funding from where ever they can . They need to diversify their funding.
@Safiye Sultan If it worked then that would be fine. But all the evidence suggests that scaling CCS is unrealistic.
its not like they gonna stop anyway because civilization needs oil, so why not partner with them
We need co2 to photosynthesis at maximum level??
Safiye Sultan if we are being realistic we are the problem. we are fuel hungry and thats not going to stop anytime soon. specially since global warming and ecological damage is already here.
My trouble is the clean energy types are always pushing wind turbines and solar panels but never explain where all the huge amounts of clean elctricity we are going to need will come from when the wind isn't blowing and its dark.
Folks do not be misled here. You still need your trees and plants to deal with climate change, especially in different environments where these carbon capture devices will not function properly. Do your research on plants, so that you can plant one yourself and pray some animal doesn't come to desecrate it like they do graves.
"partnering with oil companies is a step in the wrong direction" that is definitely not a healthy attitude. Oil money is going into alternative energy whether you like it or not.
Yea, it was a silly comment. With their business models under siege, naturally, the oil companies are going to be looking for alternative energy sources and it is good that they are redeploying their workforce productively.
I think if they want to capture carbon they should capture the gas released in thermal Power plant.there they don't need giant fans they can directly get the CO2 gas. 🤔🤔🤔🤔
@@sanketkumar8040 Have you checked out "pyrolysis "? converting Methane into Hydrogen and solid carbon www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/german-industry-talks-up-carbon-free-hydrogen-from-fossil-gas/
It's a bad idea because they're just going to "purchase carbon offsets" instead of changing their core business. The carbon offset businesses hide the fact that no real changes have been made.
Exactly. We have to be pragmatic. This technology is essential to transition to 100% renewable energy. The produced fuel can potentially be used for space exploration as well.
Extracting CO2 from the atmosphere is not novel or special. Permanently sequestering it is. Trees do both. Plant the trees. No oil company involvement necessary. This from a Chemical Engineer and ex Oxy employee.
the solution provided here is a scam. this will never work commercially, trees do.
On sulution to this is to pump the co2 back in to the space where there was extracted oil ,but you you have a good point
evenplay99 The relative advantage of trees would be that they work anywhere, whereas carbon sequestration is localized and doesn’t effect the carbon released by the fuel being burned (ie cars).
@@atruebrit6452 I wish I could think like these guys. I'd be a lot richer. When people's arms start flailing, just "do something" and have em bust out the checkbook.
@@darrellm4794 has nothing to do with the way of thinking, or with aptitudes. It's corruption pure and simple. You need to know the right person in the right position. I followed startups for the last 20 years. The most idiotic ideas got funded, 1 in 100 is still in the market after 2-3 years, the decision makers got rich every time. Corruption and inside trading. And a few suckers, but not so many as you might think. I started a tree planting program, and I cannot get funds, not even loans, but a machine that squeezes juice from a plastic bag got 400mil dollars... Solar roads which were proven to be a scam got a couple of millions too, although they never worked, and the idea is clearly stupid (like this one here), but I was not able to secure funds, even if contractually obligated to return them, with profit... you need to know (and pay) the right people.
"Your not stopping the fossil fuels industry, you are actually promoting it." This captures the hatred some have toward others. If this technology can dramatically reduce GHG emissions, maybe you can dramtically reduce your hatred? The solution requires more partners and less enemies.
It is not a question of hate. By partnering with this company, the fossil fuel industry is willing to perpetuate its current business model of emitting CO2. They say it themselves: they're not even storing carbon they're releasing it again as fuel. It doesn't solve any problem, and that's exactly why fossil fuel companies invest in it. Partnering is nice, as long as your partners are honest and have good moral values, otherwise nothing good can come out of such a partnership.
Just remember when you are watching this to thank the oil/gas industry for the computer you are using. This project is like Leo DiCaprio saying to end fossil fuel but hops into his jet to get to his yacht thats 5k miles away.
Tree asks: If you want to compare the comparable, when is oxygen coming out of your fancy pipes?
I'm definetly not an expert, but at 6:32 it is said, that solar hydrogen would be required to synthesize a synthetic fuel from the captured CO2. If, which I would assume, solar hydrogen means hydrogen from solar powered electrolysis then the Oxygen would be released during the process of obtaining the hydrogen.
I am an Ent - the tree said
Trees provide more than just oxygen. They also provide homes for wildlife.
i assume it does? if they use the carbon in the co2 to make calcium carbonate the oxygen needs to be freed up in the process. might be as an oxide, might be as molecular oxygen.
if a city is going to invest in this dont put that in the middle of nowhere. put them along the freeways where most pollution comes from. or make factories with smoke stacks be responsible for their own smoke, make them filter their air before it goes back into the air. semi trucks could also stand up and be responsible for their own smoke. make systems can can be integrated to cars, factories and top of homes chimneys if needed. stop the smoke b4 it happens not after. what kind of back words thinking is this? make everyone accountable, start with major businesses.
There is a tree somewhere making oxygen just for you ... you owe that tree an apology ... 😉
that tree died thousands of years ago no thanks
Well no. Actually, trees are pretty crap at making Oxygen. An acre of Trees produces about 1/8th the Oxygen that an acre of grassland does. And about 1/60th the Oxygen that an acre of shallow water with algae in it does. That's not the real reason you want trees.
@@captainseyepatch3879 so what will be the reason now if this technology sounds so good?
Have you hugged a tree this week ?
trees are inefficient reject trees get industrial
I wonder how much heat is released when a carbon dioxide molecule is captured?
Does it also maitain ground water table levels, produce oxygen, support natural ecosystem and help in the process of temperature regulation, rainfall and soil erosion? Maybe planting trees 🌲🌳🌴 would do
Trees do like...10-15% of the carbon capture in a year. The oceans do at least 50%. Instead of just talking about planting trees, we need marine management.
Or we could have plants like these all around the world.
Tit 4 Tat well they can only really survive in the ocean bro
very very...veeeery bad idea. the co2 turns the water acidic thus dissolving all creatures that have a chitin exoskeleton like shells and reefs this is already a problem because the rising co2 levels are already afffecting acidity of the ocean, say bye bye great barrier reef
omg i thought of the same thing putting it at the end of the exaust yes people are so stupid this all a scam people are so stupid.
There all connected. The world is connected everywhere. If they started cutting down trees in the Amazon the world would feel its affect
all industrial exhaust stacks should have one of these on it to collect it right away at the source
Exactly
As good as that sounds, the bottom line is we need to pull the plug on fossil fuels. Nuclear energy is the future of mankind.
@@ThorHanson7531 no, more like fusion energy
I think it would juat be cheaper and faster to build these. Not like the world is gonna givebup on oil and gas over night. We can build a few thousand of these overnight it humanity felt like it....
@@ThorHanson7531 AGREED only when we find a way to SAFELY dispose of the waste. Also I'm not a rocket scientist or nuclear physicist but I know the cooling pools that they keep the nuclear waste in they have to keep switching out with fresh cool water so it doesn't evaporate away and cause a meltdown. What is instead of using new fuel we use those cooling pools to generate heat and regulate it to a certain temperature to create the steam we need for power? Reduce Reuse and ........
i know 40 mil sounds like a lot, but this is just an averge sized forest 4 000 by 10 000 trees ... (and the latter actually does not need fossil fuel to be operated ...)
And it also produces O2 as trees for sure! :D
If it doesn't simultaneously produce oxygen then it doesn't do the same job as trees
Well it doesn't grow by itself, and grow fruits and stuff like that. But you get what they mean so stop that bs...
Imagine being this stupid. What's next,it has to have roots as well? 😂
You guys arent anything
There is plenty of oxygen in the air, we don't really need more of it right now.
@@giedrius2149 what's bs? If you bury carbon dioxide, you are literally burying the equivalent of one oxygen molecule for every atom of carbon
The only difference is that trees capture CO2, conserve “C” and deliver O2 to the atmosphere, whereas these plants do not.
Where O² go?
@@patrip2582 The o2 comes from H20 during photosynthesis
@@patrip2582 The '²' is supposed to be a subscript number rather than a superscript number for the formula to be valid. Therefore, it should be digitally represented as 'O₂', instead of 'O²'.
@@RokeJulianLockhart.s4eb2q maybe he just doesn't know how to get subscript number.
Patrip The O2 goes to the CaCO3 pellets (which lol sucks away another O) and gets buried underground. Don’t worry though O2 is 20% of atmosphere volume and CO2 is less than 0.3% so O2 isn’t close to running out because of this
Holds the soil in place, shades the soil beneath, encourages rainfall, provides habitat for a whole ecosystem and runs totally on it's own energy, not relying on outside energy sources.
All of these university professors criticize the people who actually providing a solution.
Just plant 40 million trees.
your better off just putting more phytoplankton into the ocean. They make up for over 50% of oxygen in the world.
Have you plant one?
if we all plant one tree. problem solved?
@@thelastcipher9135 Buy me one tree...wire me the money
Energix isn’t it dying due to the heat change though?
Does the job of 40million trees says a man who thinks trees do only 1 job.
THIS. SO MUCH THIS.
That is job that matters the most today.
@@V1Pin um, not really. Trees keep soil balance. They not only keep soil humid but also, depending on the tree, the keep different nutrients like carbon, phosphorus and calcium, which are essential for plants, fungi and even animals. Trees' roots also have bacteria that help the soil flora stay nice and make the soil fertile. Without trees the Earth would become a deserted wasteland (and that's why desertification has become a real issue in our times). So, yeah, trees' main job ISN'T filtering CO2, they keep their (and our) environment nicely balanced. Oh, and they keep warm places chill and they pretty much protect insects and animals, giving them shelter, which mean less species going extinct. And I could go on and on and on.
Allan Fitz has a point.
@@jayiu9170 Thank you for being knowledgeable, it is both needed and appreciated.
So...... we are now using chemicals to pull the chemical out from the atmosphere....... what are we going to do with the chemical that we use to pull?
@David Rapp okay, should specify myself, how specifically? How are they going to recycle? Will that also have an impact on the environment? How much will that all cost? All those facilities and machine used to recycle. What is something bad happened? We are dealing with chemical here and they could become unstable. Yes, that's is what I mean by what are going to do with those chemicals used to pull.
@David Rapp how much new jobs have been created for this recycling process? Is this going to be a trend in the future? Are we going to be expecting a drive of need for people good at chemistry? What impact will that have on other industries who are in need of more people, like docs and nurses, and teachers? My country here is promoting heavily to encourage more people to choose one of these occupation. Not sure about other countries, will this all have an impact? We all have many ideas but limited resources and capabilities, so how are the resources going to be used? Please answer, Thank you very much
Waiting for someone to pull back the curtain like Wizard of Oz.
And here goes ALL the EXPERTS in the comment section 😂😂😂✌🏻
Literally no one...
Indeed
Yep all those KZhead engineers lol
You do not need to be an expert to do some simple plausibility checks.
You don't have to be a expert to have common sense.😂😂😂
It recieved more funding than any other..... And that is why its on cnbc.
Well im happy to see ANYTHING like this being made a reality. If your saying there are more then all the better!
So? Lol
@@aurorajones8481 Good point. 4:23 I mean if a vice president of BHP sounds like a panicking environmentalist, it certainly is well past the point of picking and choosing. - So let's solve the problem at its source as well as do all of the above approach, because the challenge is so great.
@@mikep114 compared to top republicans and the US president he sure does...
@@machelvet9594 That technology should be made ready to come on line AFTER we replace the fossil fuel industry. Otherwise, the technology will only be used as a crutch for the fossil fuel industry to continue killing humanity.
This shouldn't be the replacement of trees. But should work side by side with them.
They should reuse hydroelectric plants to power stations like these, while moving the grid towards Nuclear energy. Also, to those in the comments section berating carbon capture technology, I would point out that no amount of trees is going to capture all the carbon we burned from deposits in which it was stored safely for millennia. One plant over a short period of time won’t fix the problem, but it’s a start.
Ocean forests will
And therefore we need to reduce use if carbon fuels, reduce drastically
“After that, it’s just chemistry.” The scraping sound you hear is economics, scalability, waste management, and end products being swept under the rug.
Yea there's no way this process is more efficient than photosynthesis
@@Centrioless I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic.
@@lamboseeker238 which part of my comment is sarcastic? The other carbon capturing process that we have is photosynthesis which's done by plants and algae. Op is 100% correct abt this
@@Centrioless I just read it with the wrong accentuation.
@@Centrioless Well its still better than nothing. Its probably better that the rich are spending their money on this instead of going to space for 5minutes
There was recently a dry ice shortage for medical use in Europe. Also a potential market for captured CO2.
Nice tip👍
Too many KZheadrs buying it in bulk for swimming pools
..... Is the CO[2] going to be captured when it sublimates?
@@isaackarjala7916 LOOOOL
@@Tearstank Bigly words confuse you?
Place.commercial greenhouses near powerplants,and pipe the exhaust into them.They usually burn fuel to create it in greenhouses.Also plant a green buffer around the powerplants to absorb the Carbon dioxide.
The title for this video should actually be “tree food remover”
I mean... you do realize we currently have too much co2... right? Like I need water to survive. But I'm not getting upset with people for draining their basements when there's a flood.