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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It’s done, but it takes a while to become more common. Ideally, some law changes would help. For example, it would be great if mining CO2 was outlawed so that CO2 from carbon capture is bought in place of the mined one.

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