#5 | Can we engineer our way out of this?

<p>Measurable, instant, continuous carbon capture and safe, reliable, permanent storage. Sound too good to be true?</p> <p>Actually, this is exactly what engineered solutions like DAC (Direct Air Capture) and geological sequestration claim to bring to our carbon removal toolkit. The former promises technological innovation that does a tree's job better than a tree. The latter offers one of our surest bets that once we've got the CO2 down, we can keep it down, out of the atmosphere for as good as forever.</p> <p>Naturally, however, these unnatural solutions have catches, complications... even controversies. Are we engineering our ways out of one problem and into several others?</p> <p>Many thanks to our excellent guests in this episode:</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.beg.utexas.edu/people/katherine-romanak" target="_blank">Dr Katherine Romanak</a>, Research Scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas</li><li>Steve Oldham, CEO of <a href="https://carbonengineering.com/" target="_blank">Carbon Engineering</a></li></ul> <p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</p> <p>To learn more about The Carbon Removal Show, including further reading, sources from the episode, and our free newsletter head to: <a href="https://restored.cc/" target="_blank">https://restored.cc/</a></p> <p>Thanks to Patch for sponsoring the podcast</p>