Reply To: Carbon Capture and Storage

Thanks for this, Paul. What Iceland is interesting, tho I’m much more impressed with its commitment to renewables than carbon capture. Globally mechanical carbon capture and storage (CCS is a non-answer. If it even works—not a given—it is horribly expensive. CCS clocks in at $600 to $1,000 per ton for direct air capture. Proposed geological storage costs an additional $2 to $58 per ton.

As the Guardian put it, it’s a “get out of jail card that does not actually work: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/12/carbon-capture-the-get-out-of-jail-free-card-that-does-not-actually-work

More interesting is regenerative agriculture, which enables us to durably sequester enormous amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide at a profit. For more on this, see my latest article: https://www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/yes-regenerative-agriculture-can-pull-carbon-from-the-atmosphere-and-prevent-catastrophe-at-a-profit/