A Boring Dystopia

And then to run it! I hate how these ideas get funding and are immediately being built without question. How much energy was put in the materials, in building it, and how much more will they need to run it to extract how much CO2 exactly? And then let's say it works. It works so well that in that region CO2 levels fall well below and reach normal levels. What then? They leave it there? Move it?

Ssssssh. Sssssssssssssssh. Only dreams now.

I knew it was bullshit the moment I saw "The US is building..." and it wasn't a concentration camp

I believe that's what OPs caption in the post body is getting at

No no no! It doesn't work! It's bad actually!

And sea algae are even better.

Well we still need to capture the excess CO2 that we’ve pumped into the air for the last 200 years.

There's actually a new kind of gas turbine thermodynamic cycle that does in fact emit super-critical CO2 in a highly concentrated form that is extremely easy to collect and sequester. https://netpower.com/technology/

They're building a 300MW facility in Texas right now. I'd say this is a really solid contender for a transitionary power generation while we stand around with our heads in the sand.

Fun fact, most of the O2 we breathe is processed from CO2 by algae, not trees.

I mean, trees help, but the planet is mostly covered in water, so algae has a bit of an advantage.

The problem is that the ocean has historically been one part that environmental activism has struggled with, because how do you hold someone accountable for ecological damage done on international waters?

Any damage there tends to then affect bays, natural marinas, shore lines, and other areas where algae like living.

Trees are good, but they can probably do more good by replacing these carbon capture systems with algae ponds. They're powered by the sun too.

Unless it uses hydro, nuclear, wind, solar

Too late.

The thing about oceans is they have massive amounts of inertia.

We're still surviving on the inertia from before we fucked them up, but we've already fucked them up, and some of the consequences of that won't be apparent until 50 or 100 years from now.

Same with fixing them. We won't see the effects (or the unintended side effects) of anything we do to fix them for decades, and even then they'll probably be unnoticeable under the effects of how much we fucked them up before trying to fix them.

Stopping is probably indeed the best option, hopefully we haven't damaged them enough that they won't fix themselves eventually... but that'll take hundreds or more probably thousands of years.

My first thought was "bitcoin farm".

I thought it was just a picture of a new graphics card that was coming out. I almost didn't read it because I said to myself I couldn't afford a new graphics card in the next few years.

Carbon capture is the preferred solution to climate change for oil and gas companies, because is the only one that doesn't require a reduction on oil and gas extraction.

The amount of energy, created through burning fossil fuels, required to run the things offsets the benefit. This is Texas greenwashing burning energy for no reason.

Carbon is an amazingly flexible element that gets bound up with lots of other elements. Oxygen is also incredibly reactive and makes up almost half the mass of the Earth's crust. Add in all the heat down there for activation energy, and it starts to make sense. I'm no expert though.