Short answer: no, not with business-as-usual rules for permitting and siting. Even with money, it's all but impossible to develop deployable industrial hardware of the kind we are talking about here in five years.
Alternative-world answer: Under wartime style system in which multiple independent technological pathways were pursued at once and if local planning and environmental permitting rules were suspended, then yes. Question: why would it ever make any sense to do this? The carbon cycle inertia is large. It is cheaper to get started by just cutting emissions using tools we already have from efficiency to carbon free electricity by wind, nuclear or coal-with-capture. Air capture is useful only after some of the easy stuff has already been done. -D ________________________________ From: Manu Sharma [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: December 10, 2009 7:54 AM To: David Keith Cc: Geoengineering Subject: Re: [geo] Prof. Klaus Lackner + air capture demo at AGU in SF Having read your overview in Science now, please disregard my second question about cost. I'd re-frame the first question as: If government funding is made available to the existing labs and new research institutions around the world, with the aim to make a concerted effort focussed on large-scale deployment, is it foreseeable to imagine air capture ready to be deployed within five years? Thanks, Manu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en.
