Is it a matter of the technology not existing? I understand it’s a grossly oversimplified model and I am neither an engineer nor a chemist, but I can’t imagine that we couldn’t simply set up a furnace that vents down a cooling pipe into a container or facility that captures the gasses and toxic particulate/waste for either further processing, reuse in industry, or just to stockpile.
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The gases are several orders of magnitude larger than the solids you burned to make them. You’re generating vast volumes of gas that must be collected and stored.
In theory, it could be pressurized and/or condensed for storage – just not where you’re likely to ever have an earthquake or tornado.
As with most trash mitigation schemes the ultimate decider is money. It’s trash, literally so worthless you pay people to make it leave. Who’s paying for your carbon sequestration facility to incinerate something that can be buried in a big hole for much less?
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