Without knowing a ton about the economics, my understanding is that Project Vesta, as a startup working on carbon capture and sequestration, costs more per ton than other initiatives currently, but the hope is with continued revenue & investment they can go down the cost curve. I agree it’s hard to know for sure what to believe—the geoengineering route taken by Make Sunsets is somewhat more controversial than CC&S (and I think, encodes more assumptions about efficacy), and one might reasonably prefer a more direct if expensive route to reversing carbon emissions. I might make a rough analogy to the difference between GiveDirectly and AMF, with reasonable people preferring the first due to being more direct (even if less cost effective).
Without knowing a ton about the economics, my understanding is that Project Vesta, as a startup working on carbon capture and sequestration, costs more per ton than other initiatives currently, but the hope is with continued revenue & investment they can go down the cost curve. I agree it’s hard to know for sure what to believe—the geoengineering route taken by Make Sunsets is somewhat more controversial than CC&S (and I think, encodes more assumptions about efficacy), and one might reasonably prefer a more direct if expensive route to reversing carbon emissions. I might make a rough analogy to the difference between GiveDirectly and AMF, with reasonable people preferring the first due to being more direct (even if less cost effective).