[titojankowski]

I like how you're thinking from a hobbyist standpoint.

The teaspoon analogy (below) is a little flawed. It discounts technology improvement/growth.

You also have to include that:

1. teaspoon tech is in its infancy

2. if teaspoons were a few orders of magnitude cheaper and bigger, the job would be done rapidly

3. teaspoon tech has lots of promising pathways that haven't been followed

Carbon removal tech was $1,000/ton a few years ago, now it's ~$200/ton. Draw a line through those points and you might get somewhere interesting.

[MuffinFlavored]

What does a $200/ton carbon removal stack look like?

There's solar powered fans blowing air over some kind of material that captures C02 out of the air. What exactly is that material, how much does it cost, do consumers have easy access to it?

Then, you need immense heat to react the C02 in the material out, yeah? That's part 2. I think if we focus on it one part at a time, we may get some answers!