MIT May Have Just Developed The Ultimate Climate Technology

Over the past century or so, we humans have inflicted a lot of damage to this precious planet’s climate systems. In fact, we are still harming it at a record pace, with some of the highest levels of carbon emissions ever seen. As such, if we want to avoid a climate catastrophe, we not only need to reduce our emissions as quickly as possible but also repair the damage we have already done. For this reason, carbon capture will be a vital part of our efforts to save the planet. There is only one problem: it is far too expensive! Right now, it costs around $1,000 to permanently remove a tonne of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, meaning that completely offsetting our emissions would cost $35 trillion annually, which is simply impossible. Luckily, this could all soon change thanks to MIT and their new astonishing ocean-based carbon capture technology.

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