[laweijfmvo]

> The company broke ground on its Mammoth plant this week. With a CO₂ capture capacity of 36,000 tons per year, Mammoth will be almost 10 times larger than Orca.

> While Orca has 8 collector containers each about the size and shape of a standard shipping container, Mammoth will have 80.

This doesn't seems practical to scale. To capture 36,000,000 tons (1/1000 of the current global output) they'd need 80,000 shipping containers?

> Meanwhile, global emissions topped 36 billion tons last year.

> “We started with milligrams of carbon dioxide captured from the air,” he said. “Then we went from milligrams to grams, from grams to kilograms to tons to 1,000 tons.” That sort of leveling up over the course of 13 years is no small feat.

If it took 13 years to reach the current scale, how many more orders of magnitude are left to squeeze out?

[ncmncm]

Eight more orders of magnitude to move the needle.

It will have to happen, but it will be hard to keep people from thinking it is a substitute for doing what else will really be needed for it to end up making any difference.

[marcosdumay]

13 years for 9 orders of magnitude. On that pace, in 13 years they would process the entire Earth's atmosphere in days.

How many orders of magnitude do you expect them to need?