eli5: Why isn’t carbon capture used at emission sources?

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I know that there is ‘legacy carbon’ in the atmosphere that needs to get removed but why aren’t we leveraging carbon capture as part of industrial processes (e.g. at the factory’s smoke stack, for example). Or maybe we are already?

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They almost universally do. I worked in a lab for a short time that did carbon scraping directly between the exit using state of the art methods. Any capture percentage was a win

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