Biden admin's latest climate change strategy: Capture 'legacy carbon' from the air and 'permanently store it underground'

The Biden administration has touted a $1.2 billion program designed to capture "legacy carbon" from the air and then permanently store it underground or convert it to concrete to offset emissions.

The Department of Energy issued a press release for a new program that claimed it would create 4,800 "Good-Paying Jobs" through the development of two "commercial-scale direct air capture facilities" in Texas and Louisiana.

"These projects are expected to remove more than 2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions each year from the atmosphere — an amount equivalent to the annual emissions from roughly 445,000 gasoline-powered cars," the Biden administration stated.

Direct air capture is a process that separates CO2 from the air, according to the announcement, which will help reduce "legacy CO2 in the atmosphere."

The seperated CO2 would then be "safely and permanently stored deep underground" or perhaps be converted into concrete. The latter is likely in reference to a process of injecting carbon into concrete materials in hopes that the amount of the stored carbon is greater than the amount output by the processing of said concrete.

The Biden administration called these processes a key component in "combatting the climate crisis and reinforcing America’s global competitiveness in the zero-carbon economy of the future."

The press release reinforced a plan for a "net-zero emission economy" that will require between 400 million and 1.8 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide to be removed from the atmosphere each year.

This is of course a subtle admission that reducing emissions at the point of manufacturing or lessening energy consumption is not actually the proposed plan, but rather finding ways to eliminate carbon after the fact is.

"Cutting back on our carbon emissions alone won’t reverse the growing impacts of climate change; we also need to remove the CO2 that we’ve already put in the atmosphere — which nearly every climate model makes clear is essential to achieving a net-zero global economy by 2050,” said U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm.

“With this once-in-a-generation investment made possible by President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, DOE is laying the foundation for a direct air capture industry crucial to tackling climate change — transforming local economies and delivering healthier communities along the way," she added.

In addition to its infamous proposals to ban gas stoves, the Biden administration also updated the ban on incandescent light bulbs, which went into effect on August 1, 2023.

The federal government is also reportedly going after gas furnaces and essentially outlawing between 40% and 60% of furnaces on the market with a higher fuel utilization efficiency requirement.

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