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by tantalor 2306 days ago
TerraPass offers $10/ton

https://www.terrapass.com/product/productindividuals-familie...

2 comments

Carbon offsets is not the same as co2 removal.
If carbon offset is done well, wouldn't it be equivalent?
AFAICT offsets are "We stopped one tonne from going in", removal is "We took one tonne out".
Unless I'm missing something, that sounds like the same net effect. Why is one better than the other apart from price?
It's insufficient - there's a cap on how much carbon we can stop emitting, and maxing that out will not be enough to halt climate change. Agreed though, in the sense that we should fully fund the cheap options while also funding research on going carbon negative.
+0 tonnes is not equivalent to -1 tonne of C02 emission, because maths.

Reducing current C02 levels is more difficult and expensive than just reducing C02 output, and has a greater impact on overall reduction, but both are moves in the right direction.

> +0 tonnes is not equivalent to -1 tonne of C02 emission, because maths.

Right, but we're talking about -1 tonne (reducing emissions) vs -1 tonne (taking carbon out of the atmosphere) and last I checked, -1 tonne is equivalent to -1 tonne.

> Reducing current C02 levels is more difficult and expensive than just reducing C02 output, and has a greater impact on overall reduction

It makes sense to me that it's easier/cheaper to reduce C02 output (at least as long as there is lots of low-hanging fruit), but it doesn't make sense to me that one would have a greater impact than the other.

I spot checked some of the projects they list, and not one has any estimates of how much greenhouse gas reduction is attributable to TerraPass investment. Nor is the investment amount or percentage is shown. From which I conclude that TerraPass is a scam.