Re: All we need is ....
> How do you 'recover' carbon emissions? At best, you don't make anymore - unless it's possible to be carbon-negative in manufacturing.
You recover carbon in the same way as you recover gold from recycled electronics: you extract it.
For carbon, there's two main ways to get said carbon out of the air. We can use the good old fashioned approach of growing lots of plants to lock the carbon in their cellulose, or we can use technology to extract, compress and liquify the carbon dioxide for storage. E.g. by injecting into old oil wells or salt mines.
(I even saw an interesting hybrid proposal once, around baling up large quantities of waste high-carbon matter and dropping it into the ocean deeps where it'll eventually crawl under the tectonic plates. 'Course, this assumes that we can find high-carbon matter which isn't suitable for recycling...)
And for the latter, as long as the carbon used in this process is less than the carbon extracted, we're theoretically onto a winner.
Of course, the problem is the scale; the world uses over 8 billion tonnes of coal every year, and that's not something you can fix by sticking a few begonias on a windowsill.
And the other key point is that we're not "recovering" the carbon for reuse, since the entire point is to lock it away and thereby reduce climate change.
Another point is that EVs aren't just about carbon. They also reduce air pollution (e.g. NOx and particulates), noise pollution, etc.
For me personally (and as per my various posts, which often attract negative votes), neither EVs nor their support infrastructure are fit for purpose yet. But at some point they will be, and the moment when that arrives seems to be speeding up quite nicely.
Unlike, say, cold fusion, which has been just twenty years away since before I was born ;)
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