Orbuch: Carbon removal is fundamentally costlier than basic emissions reductions
Ryan Orbuch · Growing the Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) market · May 5, 2022 · at 12:40
Lowercarbon Capital partner Ryan Orbuch explains to Shayle Kann why carbon dioxide removal cannot serve as a direct replacement for emissions reduction.
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“Carbon removal is never intended to be a substitute for emissions reduction, and, like, to that point is going to be dramatically more expensive than the vast majority of reductions, right? Like, that's just how this works. Like, not burning something is going to be cheaper than Like, collecting the dilute remnants of the burned thing and doing something with it.”
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