The carbon capture company Climeworks only captures a fraction of the CO2 it promises its machines can capture. The company is failing to carbon offset the emissions resulting from its operations – which have grown rapidly in recent years.
  • MNByChoice@midwest.social
    8·
    8 months ago

    Always a possibility. Now we know that won’t work.

    Edit: might have to prosecute grifters selling things they cannot deliver.

    • Birch@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      8 months ago

      Lots of technologies were deemed not viable initially until they were improved enough that they became viable.

      These guys just failed to develop the technology enough before starting to sell stuff they couldn’t deliver and banked too much on government grants that are now drying up, and now they’ve starting to sack swathes of their staff because they’re running out of cash.

      • MNByChoice@midwest.social
        2·
        8 months ago

        Yes. Their small scale versions should have proven that it would work before expanding. I strongly suspect the small scale versions either did not work well, or were never built.