Scaling CDR

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This document is meant to look at the problem of scaling up carbon removal, specifically with a focus on the financial aspects of this. The main questions are: If you more interested in the technical details of various approaches then the recent(ish) CDR Primer is a great place to start. This essay is less about technical details and more about questions around resource allocation and costs. The main things I hope you take away from this document are: This document is a bit different to most in that I've tried to make calculations, somewhat, interactive and explained step by step. Numbers in green are reactive so you can click and drag them to change their value. Numbers in blue are ones that are calculated from a mixture of our reactive values and constants. If you click on them I've tried to present the steps I went through to calculate them in the margin. This section aims to be a short bit of contextualizing of how much CO₂ we need to remove, how quickly we need to ramp up our cap

Qa --> Scaling Carbon Removal By Neil Hacker More posts ➚ (For the best experience read this essay on a screen wide enough to show margin notes) Overview This document is meant to look at the problem of scaling up carbon removal, specifically with a focus on the financial aspects of this. The main questions are: What should we be funding today How much might we expect to be spending/how does this change based on assumptions How might this funding come about/be focused If you more interested in the technical details of various approaches then the recent(ish) CDR Primer is a great place to start

Scaling CDR

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