[djleni]

DAC seems like a distraction to me.

In what situation does investment in DAC make sense over replacing fossil fuel infrastructure?

To run DAC, you need power. Why use dirty coal power to run DAC instead of using that money to replace the coal power?

What if the DAC plant is powered by green energy? Use that energy to replace fossil fuel consumption.

What if it’s powered by a 100% renewable grid with surplus that’s isolated? Move currently fossil fuel dependent industry to this grid! Put a data center there instead of somewhere that burns coal.

Sure, we should research it, but until we’re running 100% renewables it always makes more sense to build a solar farm instead.

Maybe an apt analogy: building DAC infrastructure right now is like sending a contractor to a currently burning building to install a fire sprinkler system.