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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There is literally only 1 coal plant that implemented carbon recapture (Petra Nova in Tx) and it was so expensive that they put a lid on it after $1B investment.

This tech isn’t ready. It’s just fantasy.

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