[tito]

I work in the carbon removal industry, and your calculations add up.

Where I encourage you to explore is what an equivalent unit of energy spent on developing new carbon removal systems is right now vs the equivalent unit of energy spent to make another solar panel. There's a trillion tons of excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, so even if we stopped every carbon dioxide emission tomorrow, the planet would still continue to warm for the next century.

My conclusion is that ultimately we need both, and that short term the energy spent on carbon removal solutions needs to be framed as an investment for it to make sense.