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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A company can’t do it if they are the only one, because manufacturing has slim margins unless you’re operating out of a slave hole like China.

National enforcement won’t work locally because it will destroy what’s left of a very mature industry that has huge international competition and consumers won’t pay more.

Consumers guide this by changing their buying behaviour. Vote with your wallet and stop buying imports, then accept higher again prices from these kinds of initiatives.

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