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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One thing is that the carbon credit systems make it very convenient for the industry to just pay for carbon credits and let someone else somewhere else deal with the actual task of carbon capture.

Still, “point source capture” is being done: https://netl.doe.gov/carbon-management/carbon-capture/psc-map

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