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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Money is better spent on producing less carbon in the first place.

Why spend 10 million dollars on a carbon capture system on a small gas power plant when you can spend 10 million dollars on a battery that removes the need for the plant?

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