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

Certain irony in the fact that we had carbon scrubbing in the 70s. When we gave all our heavy industry to the east, we didn’t give the scrubbing technology.