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Could they theoretically store or just bury the yeast as a means of carbon capture ?
Yes, you could just bury organic carbon for carbon sequestration. However, using your custom engineered yeast enzyme to do this is pretty dumb when you could just use waste plant biomass like SinkCo Labs does.
Herein lies the fundamental economic problem with carbon sequestration: you spend money to produce nothing.