Reinhardt: Removing carbon is cheaper than $2,000/ton building decarbonization retrofits
Peter Reinhardt · Ag residue and carbon removal · Sep 25, 2025 · at 34:57
Peter Reinhardt explains corporate economic calculations when addressing hard-to-abate residual emissions in physical infrastructure.
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“It's gonna cost, like, 2000 dollars a ton for me to go, like, tear down a building and rebuild it with, like, a proper HVAC system that does, like, heat pumps, you know, it's like, and have clean concrete, like, you know, at some point you get down to this, like, baseload of, like, amortized embodied emissions and things that are, like, in the built structures, and it's really hard and really expensive. and as they get down there, it's like, well, maybe this is just cheaper to remove.”
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