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by lozenge 223 days ago
Direct air capture can't be purchased at any price to even soak up 1% of our emissions.
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That doesn’t mean that you can’t purchase it for x tons of carbon and use that to set the price.
That’s not how markets work though. For instance, just because one share of AAPL sold at $270 does not mean all 15 billion outstanding shares can be sold for that price. If a sell order was put in for even 10k shares you’d quickly find out that you might find a 270 bid for some of that but not all. Order flow is an important tool , bid/ask is misleading without it