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kuprel on May 27, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Direct air capture: our technology to capture CO₂

The entire aviation industry emitted 619 million tons of CO2 in 2019 [1]. So about 155 thousand of these plants would be needed just to offset air travel

[1] https://www.iea.org/reports/aviation

DannyBee on May 27, 2023 [–]

I mean, that's not a lot compared to trees. There are >3 trillion trees in the world.

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