The Seductive Lure of Direct Air Capture Technology Delays the Clean Energy Transition
Audio Episode:
https://kpfa.org/episode/terra-verde-january-27-2023/
Description:
This episode of Terra Verde features an interview with a researcher from the organization Food and Water Watch describing their recent report on Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology titled The Dire Climate Consequences of Capturing Carbon from the Atmosphere. The episode exposes the highly celebrated but unproven climate geoengineering approach as being absurdly expensive, energy and emissions intensive and, ultimately, worse than doing nothing.
The Food & Water report:
(short article)
Direct Air Capture: 5 Things You Need to Know About This Climate Scam
This is an excellent, flawless, hard-hitting report, And it pisses me off. I'm already annoyed with F &WW because they show no interest in hooking up with grassroots activists, just keep sending me stuff asking for money, never including anything people can do other than send F &WW money...and now, because I haven't seen this succinct, extremely important report anywhere else. We need this information OUT THERE, and we need it now, while people are trying to block tax dollars going to CCS, hydrogen hubs, and DAC boondoggles.