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

Question

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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Answer 1

I didn’t look at comments but SaskPower in Canada burns coal to produce electricity. The take the co2 from the process and capture it right there. I think they use it to put in oil wells to increase their production.