{"id":379633,"date":"2025-05-23T19:55:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T17:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=379633"},"modified":"2025-05-23T19:55:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T17:55:38","slug":"dac-dying-corporate-theater-wrapped-in-a-green-ribbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=379633","title":{"rendered":"DAC Dying? (\u201ccorporate theater wrapped in a green ribbon\u201d)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Master Resource<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Robert Bradley Jr.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe economics are even more dismal\u2026. Without the 45Q credit, few if any [Direct Air Capture projects] would be viable. As a reminder, the \u2026 Republican House bill<\/a> working its way through Congress cuts IRA incentives for a raft of technologies, but leaves 45Q for carbon capture alone.\u201d (- Michael Barnard, below)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

An article in CleanTechnica by Michael Barnard, \u201cClimeworks DAC & Fiscal Collapse & The Brutal Reality Of Pulling Carbon From The Sky<\/a>\u201c, documents the failure of another anti-CO2 program. The article begins:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2024, Climeworks\u2019 direct air capture (DAC) Mammoth plant in Iceland captured just 105 tonnes of carbon dioxide<\/a>. That\u2019s not per day, not per week, that\u2019s total, across the year. For context, that\u2019s less than the annual tailpipe emissions from a dozen long-haul trucks, or roughly one-thousandth of what the company said the plant was built to remove. In mid 2025, the company began laying off a minimum of 10% of its ~500 staff. For a firm that raised over $800 million in equity and subsidies, hailed as a pioneer of direct air capture, the numbers are sobering. But they are not surprising. They are merely the inevitable result of colliding hopeful techno-optimism with the brutal constraints of physics, economics, and scale.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Barnard then revisits the hyperbole that surrounds so many government-enabled projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DAC has always promised a seductive narrative: the ability to suck carbon out of the sky, store it underground, and buy ourselves a climate mulligan. It promised to clean up after fossil fuels without requiring too many lifestyle changes. It was a technology that said yes \u2014 to oil companies, to airlines, to governments slow-walking their emissions policies\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Private sector greenwashing was instrumental.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Big names like Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify lined up to buy carbon removal credits at $600 a ton or more. Government agencies began pouring in cash. The US 45Q tax credit was sweetened to $180 per ton. Europe and Japan set aside funds. And dozens of startups bloomed. But beneath the marketing sheen, the physics was never on DAC\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Thermodynamic Slog<\/strong>\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRemoving CO\u2082 from ambient air is a thermodynamic slog,\u201d continues Barnard. \u201cThe concentration is a measly 0.04% \u2014 less than one molecule in 2,500.\u201d Enter the complications and cost:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Capturing it means moving vast volumes of air across chemically active surfaces, then applying heat, vacuum, or electric fields to regenerate the sorbents. The most mature systems, like Climeworks\u2019 solid sorbent modules or Carbon Engineering\u2019s hydroxide-calcination loop, require on the order of 2,000 to 3,000 kilowatt-hours of energy per ton of CO\u2082. Even newer concepts that promise electrochemical capture still to hover around 700 to 1,000 kWh per ton. And that\u2019s just to capture it. Compressing, transporting, and injecting it underground adds another layer of complexity and cost.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Barnard has done the calculations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back in 2019, I analyzed Carbon Engineering\u2019s system in detail<\/a> and concluded that it wasn\u2019t ready for prime time. The energy requirements were steep, the system architecture was complex, and the economic case relied heavily on theoretical scale and generous subsidies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward to today, and those conclusions still hold. Carbon Engineering\u2019s Squamish pilot captured a few hundred tons over several years. Its first commercial plant, Stratos in Texas, is still under construction. Occidental Petroleum acquired the company in 2023 not because it had a viable climate solution, but because it had a narrative that could buy time for oil and gas. Stratos, too, will run on natural gas. The captured CO\u2082 will be injected underground and earn 45Q credits, while Occidental continues to sell hydrocarbons. This isn\u2019t carbon removal. It\u2019s corporate theater wrapped in a green ribbon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Barnard documents the energy-intensive, carbon-intensive processes involved with the leading technologies (Climeworks; Carbon Engineering).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why the Futility?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why is there support for a boondoggle-in-progress that few really like? It is magical thinking<\/em>, a \u201cjustification tool\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Direct air capture<\/a>, like the broader class of carbon capture and storage (CCS)<\/a> projects, has been used less as a mitigation tool and more as a justification tool. Capture projects at the smokestack were supposed to save coal. They didn\u2019t. DAC was supposed to save aviation. It isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now it\u2019s being positioned as the backstop for net-zero oil and gas production, a way to square the carbon ledger while the meter keeps running. The problem is that the math never adds up. To remove even one gigaton of CO\u2082 annually \u2014 the lower end of what IPCC pathways suggest we might need by mid-century \u2014 we would need thousands of DAC plants the size of the one Climeworks can\u2019t get to work. That would require hundreds of terawatt-hours of energy annually, roughly equivalent to doubling the electricity use of a mid-sized industrial nation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The Futile Crusade<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMeanwhile, global CO\u2082 emissions are still hovering around 40 billion tons per year,\u201d Barnard allows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DAC, across all companies, all technologies, and all years combined, has removed less than 20,000 tons to date. That\u2019s 0.00005% of annual global emissions. It is, for all intents and purposes, noise. And it\u2019s not getting better fast enough to matter. Mammoth\u2019s 105 tons aren\u2019t just a small number \u2014 they\u2019re a warning. The technology isn\u2019t scaling. It isn\u2019t stabilizing. And it isn\u2019t getting cheaper at the pace its proponents claim. The laws of thermodynamics are not falling into line. They\u2019re enforcing a cost floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The economics are even more dismal. Climeworks\u2019 removal credits have sold for between $600 and $1,000 per ton. Carbon Engineering\u2019s contracts are rumored to be in the $400 range. Heirloom, another promising startup using carbonate looping, hasn\u2019t released cost data, but is operating at similarly high levels. All are subsidized. Without the 45Q credit, few if any would be viable. As a reminder, the fossil fuel and tax cuts for billionaires Republican House bill<\/a> working its way through Congress cuts IRA incentives for a raft of technologies, but leaves 45Q for carbon capture alone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Eco-Mirage<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate activists do not like direct air capture or carbon capture and sequestration more generally. Barnard gives the reasons why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And yet, policy continues to encourage this fantasy. Climate plans, particularly from oil and gas states, are now riddled with assumptions about large-scale engineered removals beginning in the 2030s. It\u2019s climate budgeting with monopoly money. It postpones the hard choices. It allows emissions to continue today in exchange for a speculative cleanup later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even when DAC does remove carbon, permanence is no guarantee. Some companies are experimenting with CO\u2082 utilization \u2014 turning it into synthetic fuels or chemicals. That\u2019s fine if your goal is to recycle carbon. But it\u2019s not removal. It\u2019s delay. Others are pairing DAC with enhanced oil recovery, which is neither climate-aligned nor economically transparent. Only a handful of firms, like Charm Industrial with its bio-oil injection strategy, are actually delivering meaningful volumes of removed and stored carbon. And even Charm is still in the thousands of tons per year \u2014 not remotely near what\u2019s needed at scale.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So where does this leave this modern day equivalent of synthetic fuels? \u201cAt best,\u201d Barnard concludes, DAC is \u201ca very niche technology with specific use cases:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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legacy cleanup in overshoot scenarios after 2050, support for incredibly-expensive-to-decarbonize sectors \u2026. But as a pillar of global decarbonization strategy, it is a fantasy. It\u2019s climate alchemy: an expensive, energy-intensive attempt to undo what never needed to be done in the first place. Every ton of carbon avoided today is worth exponentially more than one captured tomorrow. And yet policy, funding, and media narratives continue to bet on the latter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

He continues as a climate activist who does not realize that false solutions and waste are the flip side of the anti-CO2 coin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We\u2019ve been here before. Carbon capture was supposed to save coal. It didn\u2019t. DAC is supposed to save oil. It won\u2019t. What will save us is electrification, efficiency, and prevention\u2026. Every watt of clean electricity deployed today reduces the need for exotic techno-fixes tomorrow. Every avoided ton of CO\u2082 is one we don\u2019t have to chase through the sky with a billion-dollar machine and a bag of subsidies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

To his credit, he is ready to pull the plug on a politically correct, economically\/environmentally incorrect technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climeworks\u2019 105-ton year should be a turning point. Not just for one company, but for an entire class of false solutions. If DAC ever works at scale, it will be as a backup \u2014 not as a plan. Until then, we need to stop pretending we can suck our way out of this problem. We need to stop lighting carbon on fire. Because that\u2019s the only removal that truly works.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Better yet, with CO2 mitigation policies and technologies failing, it is time to reverse course on the whole climate crusade, redirecting resources toward adaptation to extreme weather (from any cause). Thirty-five years of misdirection and waste is enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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