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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Because it’s kind of like burning wood in a fire pit and wanting the wooden logs to be in the same condition at the end.

You’re making/using energy by creating carbon emissions and it would take the same (or more) energy to put it back.

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