How carbon capture networks could help curb climate change | Bas Sudmeijer

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What if we could build a global waste disposal service for carbon? In this forward-thinking talk, carbon capture advisor Bas Sudmeijer proposes building CO2 networks: partnerships between cities around the world that would share the cost and geological resources needed to trap emissions deep in the earth — and give us a shot at stalling climate change.

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34 Comments on How carbon capture networks could help curb climate change | Bas Sudmeijer

    • Don’t think for one minute that your earth will be better off .
      If they can hide the trash underground it just legitimises more pollution and the further destruction of wildlife areas left over .
      This is a con job that will cost around $400 per person per year EVERY YEAR in added costs of production .
      While these same businesses want to cut pay and have you work longer .
      No thanks .

  1. Elon Musk tweets that he’s giving 100 million to a carbon capture company

    Ted: this sounds like a good idea to post this now

  2. Bremen, Germany has their Steal plant renewable trough some fossil gas devestmen and because the German grid is not currently transporting most Wind energy.

  3. Hear me out, we stop using fossil fuels all together and move towards carbon free alternatives like geo-thermal, electrification, nuclear, etc.

  4. “Climate change is real. It is happening right now, it is the most urgent threat facing our entire species and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating.”

    Leonardo Di Caprio, Actor & Environmentalist

    • Again: humans trying to change things not realizing, over and over again, that there will be negative consequences to those actions.

    • You know if you *add* carbon into the carbon cycle you melt glaciers, start forest fires, create water scarcity, increase the severity of storms and hurricanes… oh yeah you also create deserts. The Sahara is growing in size, look it up. The notion that carbon capture is bad only follows if you are completely ignorant to the massive co2 pollution happening across our planet.

  5. The trees are already suffocating enough as it is the more carbon We get rid of the more trees we lose the more deserts we create.

    • There won’t be trees left , if carbon capture takes off .
      They will use it as an excuse to land clear .
      We no longer need nature to clean up , big brother has you covered , we stick it under ground now and charge the price of doing it to you .
      That forest you like to camp in , is now another farm of some sort because the land has been cleared .
      The land was more beneficial as a farm and a carbon capture plant .

  6. Again peeps: humans trying to change things not realizing, over and over again, that there will be negative consequences to those actions.

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