Why can/do we not capture the released CO2 directly at the source?

Question

So why can/do we not capture the CO2 directly where it is released? For example for cars directly at the exhaust? Or for coal power plants at the chillen? Wouldn‘t it be much more effective to capture the CO2 there instead of trying to filter it out of the atmosphere?

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Answer 1

Google carbon capture and sequestration. What you are suggesting is a thing for stationary sources. We just don’t have a business model for doing it. We don’t have a use for large pools of stored CO2 or a carbon tax to incentivize storing it.