silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 3 months agoClimeworks’ capture fails to cover its own emissionsheimildin.isexternal-linkmessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up155arrow-down10cross-posted to: collapse@lemm.ee
arrow-up155arrow-down1external-linkClimeworks’ capture fails to cover its own emissionsheimildin.issilence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square13linkfedilinkcross-posted to: collapse@lemm.ee
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-23 months agoOtherwise unusable wind and solar exist seasonally in some places, and the same goes for geothermal in Iceland where climeworks operated. This kind of thing makes sense as a research operation, not as a commercial endeavor right now.
minus-squarePhoenixz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoResearch, of course, is fine but as I understand it, this is supposed to be a commercial operation
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoYep. The idea has been to provide greenwashing services to major emitters
Otherwise unusable wind and solar exist seasonally in some places, and the same goes for geothermal in Iceland where climeworks operated.
This kind of thing makes sense as a research operation, not as a commercial endeavor right now.
Research, of course, is fine but as I understand it, this is supposed to be a commercial operation
Yep. The idea has been to provide greenwashing services to major emitters