5min to unleash the Exponential Framework for Maximum Impact 💫 You are now 2,207 climate insiders! 🙌 We live in an Exponential Age, and the tech world is governed by exponential laws. The 3 Exponential Laws 🚀 Moore's Law Coined by Intel's Gordon Moore, it says that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years without costing more.
Wright's Law may mean CDR equipment can be manufactured more cheaply, but the main cost of CDR is the energy required to drive it, and the laws of thermodynamics are not going to change to make it any less energy intensive.
The fossil fuel industry are manifestly supporting and encouraging the CDR movement - "The CEO of Occidental Petroleum has said that direct air capture is a way of prolonging the life of the oil industry"
Indeed, most CDR technologies, and in particular DAC, will require another enabling technological brick to scale - cheap and non-intermittent energy. That's why we're betting big on Fusion and SMRs so much. If that domino falls, it kicks the rest down.
And yes, Big Oil will fight to survive... Pressure and tension will continue rising. We seriously need to ensure they don't corrupt CDR
Wright's Law may mean CDR equipment can be manufactured more cheaply, but the main cost of CDR is the energy required to drive it, and the laws of thermodynamics are not going to change to make it any less energy intensive.
The fossil fuel industry are manifestly supporting and encouraging the CDR movement - "The CEO of Occidental Petroleum has said that direct air capture is a way of prolonging the life of the oil industry"
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2023/08/15/direct-air-capture-carbon-dioxide-removal-occidental-vicki-hollub/
Indeed, most CDR technologies, and in particular DAC, will require another enabling technological brick to scale - cheap and non-intermittent energy. That's why we're betting big on Fusion and SMRs so much. If that domino falls, it kicks the rest down.
And yes, Big Oil will fight to survive... Pressure and tension will continue rising. We seriously need to ensure they don't corrupt CDR