The Tesla CEO's announcement about a $100M prize for best carbon capture technology has brought attention to an industry that is not new but remains relatively unknown and controversial.

0:00​ Introduction
0:56​ Why carbon?
1:15​ Carbon capture, carbon removal, direct air capture, CCU. What are the differences?
2:36​ Carbon Engineering
3:00​ Who supports carbon removal?
4:17​ The current state of carbon capture and direct air capture
4:39​ Elon Musk and the $100M Gigaton Scale Carbon Removal XPRIZE
5:40​ The case against carbon capture

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