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Grinding green rocks into tiny dust could be very helpful on climate change
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Grinding green rocks into tiny dust could be very helpful on climate change

Let's talk about enhanced rock weatherization

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Matthew Yglesias
Jun 01, 2023
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When I’ve written about carbon dioxide removal in the past, I’ve focused on direct air capture — efforts to build, in effect, artificial trees that could suck CO2 out of the air and store it in the ground.

This kind of technology is promising in many ways, but the biggest issue with it is that it’s extremely energy intensive. The CO2 is in the atmospher…

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