I read a New York Times article and now I feel stupider.
> US To Fund a $1.2 Billion Effort To Vacuum Greenhouse Gases From the Sky
https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/08/11/1323257/us-to-fund-a-12-billion-effort-to-vacuum-greenhouse-gases-from-the-sky
Not-paywalled on Tor: https://www.nytimesn7cgmftshazwhfgzm37qxb44r64ytbb2dj3x62d2lljsciiyd.onion/2023/08/11/climate/carbon-dioxide-direct-capture.html
> and one of those technologies includes direct air capture, which is essentially giant vacuums that can suck decades of old carbon pollution straight out of the sky.
With lots of money, and without adding extra CO_2? Nothing in the article about how this can work.