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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Yes it is possible. The issue is that capturing carbon as a gas and doing something useful with it is massively energy intensive and costly. Much more costly than refining available carbon.
The only useful economic incentive then is for climate change mitigation which requires countries to invest in it. So many countries won’t because they can’t get their citizens to agree it’s important or vice versa.
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