Why is it difficult to develop a large scale and energy efficient carbon capture technology?

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Why is it difficult to develop a large scale and energy efficient carbon capture technology?

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For the same reason that carbon-based fuels are so good that we use them for almost everything: carbon really really likes to bond to oxygen, and carbon capture has to overcome that. It has to put *in* as much energy as burning fossil fuels gets *out*.

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