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Can Thousands of Huge Machines Capture Enough Carbon to Slow Climate Change?
One evening in late 1997, 11-year-old Claire Lackner walked into her dad’s study looking for an idea for an experiment for her sixth-grade science class. Her dad, Klaus Lackner, happened to be a physicist working on nuclear fusion at Los Alamos National …