The article says that the plant can remove 4000 tons of co2 per year. If you look up what’s the equivalent of that, just under 900 average vehicles less on the road per year.
Or the equivalent co2 savings of building one wind turbine to replace polluting forms of energy production.
Both techs are important. We need to reduce our production of greenhouse gasses, but that only gets us to break even. We then need to quickly undo the damage we caused, which needs tech like this.
But you're right: first we need to prioritize reducing our carbon output.
If the vehicle numbers were a _bit_ better, there might be an idea behind forcing car companies to build one for each couple thousand vehicles it puts out into the world. But 900... yeesh.
Or the equivalent co2 savings of building one wind turbine to replace polluting forms of energy production.
What a joke.