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obviously not putting the carbon in the air in the first place is the best solution, and carbon removal has the real potential to take away electricity that could be used for other productive purposes.

but clean energy isn't entirely fungible, and if you've got a context where it's abundant then it can make sense to use it for carbon removal. we just need to be careful that the carbon removal projects are only getting built in places where the energy would otherwise be wasted.