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The Carbon Wrangler - Ep97: Julio Friedmann

Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change

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I'm Not Seeing 200 Billion Dollars a Year on Direct Air Capture

The idea that you would spend that sort of money for a benefit that is some future, you knowhat's in any way, theoretical. I can see spending on renewable energy, on energy efficiencyon on one er, lots of things around mitigation and adaptation. But i'm not seeing a couple of hundred billion a year spent on direct air capture. If you were to do carbon capture on a cement plant, it would double the cost of cement ok? It would go from, say, a hundred dollars a ton of concrete production, to 200 dollars a ton,. That would increase the price of a bridge made entirely out of concrete by one %. The same thing happens if you did direct air

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