Technologies simmer along before they are feasible. That simmer can be short or long, but then they get traction. And from there to being huge is a couple of decades.

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• Klaus Lackner:

  I don't think you have a choice but to pull CO2 back that has already made it out, or is about to m

• Klaus Lackner:

  My personal view is the true long-term storage is mineral carbonates, which is some form of acceler

• Klaus Lackner:

  A car produces about one pound of CO2 per mile. There is no problem with collecting the CO2 in the

• Klaus Lackner:

  It is important that carbon storage is carefully regulated, that the process is transparent to the

• Klaus Lackner:

  In a well-monitored storage site, it is always possible to release CO2 in a controlled manner in th

• Klaus Lackner:

  Injecting CO2 into an underground reservoir would certainly change the local environment and thus a

• Klaus Lackner:

  Either you abandon fossil fuels, or you find a way to get that carbon back.

• Klaus Lackner:

  There's an overemphasis on conservation and other idyllic energy sources that can be harmful in tha

• Klaus Lackner:

  The fact that companies are getting into building power plants that collect their own CO2 on-site s

• Klaus Lackner:

  We need to figure out a way to create more energy on a gigawatt scale and not create so much CO2 in