The problem with Big Tech’s favorite carbon removal tech

While corporations, including tech giants like Microsoft, are betting big on this technology, there are a few potential problems with BECCS, as my colleague James Temple laid out in a new story. And some of the concerns echo similar problems with other climate technologies we cover, like carbon offsets and alternative jet fuels.

Carbon math can be complicated.

To illustrate one of the biggest issues with BECCS, we need to run through the logic on its carbon accounting. (And while this tech can use…