Are carbon capture and sustainability compatible?

Michael Grossman
4 min readMay 9, 2019
Like the dog chasing the car, what do we do with carbon once we catch it?

For years, I was a carbon capture skeptic because the technology has an “S” for storage or sequestration. To me, storing CO2 underground was like asking a smoker to hold his breath to protect everyone around him from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke. Eventually, the lungs are going to exhale.

I realize that’s an imperfect comparison as the Earth has held carbon in its…

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Michael Grossman

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