Worst then that, it is an excuse to continue or increase emissions and distract people from real solutions. We need to reduce emissions first. It might be valuable someday once the low hanging fruit has been dealt with.

It’s not a single bullet solution. There is no single bullet solution.
It is one bullet, in a hail of bullets fired at the problem. They’ll all be needed.

Use coal to pull carbon from the air. Makes total sense! /s

I would say its a yes and. Yes it costs a lot of money and it’s not as efficient as trees long term. But Trees + these machines + no longer burning and releasing CO2 at the current rate + land rewilding = a chance at survival.

tl;dr waste of money