It feels like every few months there’s a new tech “revolution” being hyped up as the future. Besides AI, what’s the most overhyped trend in tech right now? For me, it’s the constant buzz around the metaverse.

  • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Carbon capture tech.

    That one is still being promoted but in the end the CO2 is mainly used to get more oil out of wells.

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      2 months ago

      Oh yeah, definitely this. The economics will probably never allow it to be deployed at a scale where it will make any sort of difference.

      Instead, it is used as an excuse to not take any action on climate change which is actually realistic, albeit hard.

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      2 months ago

      Agreed. Future carbon capture capabilities are used to justify current emissions.

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      2 months ago

      I hate this one. People who have been following carbon capture for years know who is doing it sincerely and who is using it for greenwashing. Of course oil companies who say they’re doing carbon capture are doing greenwashing, no one should be surprised about that. Companies like Climeworks are doing real CCS.