Indeed. The CO₂ isn’t digested by humans, so it fizzes right back out of the drink or gurgles out from the drinker.

Then again, the headline is somewhat misleading as the product the article covers isn’t for carbon sequestration. Instead, it’s to provide consumers of CO₂ like breweries with a reliable and supposedly low carbon alternative for their CO₂ gas needs. Normally this CO₂ would be a waste product from refineries, but these incur more inefficiencies due to transportation. Also, recently the refineries have been opting to sequester their CO₂ instead of selling it (which is a good thing IMO).

I’m reporting all of this from the contents of the article; I haven’t verified any of the claims.

I don’t get all these “geo-engineering” magic bullets. Capitalists are taking carbon out of the ground and putting it into the air and oceans. The carbon in the air leads to warming, and the carbon in the ocean leads to acidification. Both of these things are disastrous. We need to stop the capitalists. Leave the carbon in the ground, where it belongs. Simple as