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Can rocks absorb enough CO2 to fight climate change? These companies think so

www.theverge.com Can rocks absorb enough CO2 to fight climate change? These companies think so

Alphabet, Stripe, Shopify and other companies inked a first-of-its-kind deal.

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I feel like there's a lot of these carbon-sequestration companies that are selling absolute poppycock and getting billions in funding, and very little actual oversight. They're doing this song and dance with "carbon credits", and eventually someone's going to peek behind the curtain and blow their cover.

I haven't seen one carbon-sequestration entity yet, besides those that are focused around planting trees, that have actually shown any real results other than vague handwavey bullshit. Like the ones saying they're capturing it out of the air and pumping it underground -- awfully convenient that nobody can fucking verify that it's actually happening eh?
- It is a difference between scammers with certificate trading bullshit or science guys who try to make a business case of what science got us.
  
  In carbfix its the latter.
  
  Compared to others which are selling co2 certificates for forests which do not exist.
  
  So what's carbfix's business model? How do they make money doing this? Can YOU, as an individual, verify what their claims are?
- Not that I back this in any way but just what I've read: https://www.carbfix.com/proven
  
  70,000 tons "to date" is a heck of a lot less than 37 billion tons annually. It would take over 500,000 identical facilities with no environmental impact to reach net zero.
lol fuck what a company thinks, what can they prove
- They brought in Zeke Hausefather to prove it for them.
- Don't know about the specifics in the OP but I believe it's a similar process to this:
  
  https://www.carbfix.com/proven
There's a thing in Iceland that binds CO2 underground.

It's pretty cool: https://www.carbfix.com/

Here's the science behind it https://www.carbfix.com/scientific-papers
- Most locations aren't like that; they're injecting into oil and gas deposits with the risk of subsequent leakage
  
  Enhanced rock weathering is very cool if it can be made to work at scale. Most examples have issues with needing a lot of energy to mine and pulverize rocks
  
  They are looking at using Tailings storage facilities in mining for this reason
  
  I
  
  with the risk of subsequent leakage
  
  That risk is like telling:" humanity will go down due to a eruption of a super vulcano"
  
  But i agree carbfix is no solution for global scales.

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