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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Carbon capture is just hoping that “Science will magic the problem away for us so we don’t have to do anything differently.” But the reality is that will not be the case. We’re not just going to suck the carbon out of the air. There is no energy efficient way to do it, and if you’re using energy to suck up carbon in order to offset the energy we’re already using….I think you see the problem. The only solution is to limit the carbon being dug up and transferred from fossil fuels to planetary heat-blanket.

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