Is capturing carbon directly from power plants possible? And is there any useful applications for the captured carbon?

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I feel like the only way electric cars can be truly “environment friendly” is if the carbon produced is captured at the plants.

Not sure if it’s at all possible, though.

In: Engineering

Answer 1

The fundamental problem with capturing CO2 is what do you with it after that? You can capture as much carbon as you want in f.i. trees, but the minute you burn them (doesnt matter if today or in 50 years), you release the carbon back into the atmosphere. The only way, how to “lower” carbon is to stop digging it from the ground and/or start burying it. Everything else is just bullshit done for PR points.