is is possible to make captured carbon back into a useful solid form?

Question

For many years now I have wondered why we aren’t able to turn the air captured carbon into useful things like carbon fiber or carbon nanotube batteries. surely there must be some way of doing this through the magic of chemistry.

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Answer 1

We could do it, but the problem is it’s just not scaleable in an affordable way. Think how big the planet is, now think how big of a filtration system you’d need to have any impact on CO2 in the atmosphere. Best way is to cut emmissions and stop cutting down trees which are already scaled to deal with the problem. Stop cutting down hardwood and old forests and we can solve the problem. Kill off the forests and we’re dead!