April 26, 2024
Another Climate Folly: Carbon Capture and Storage
By Pete Colan

I’ve been hearing a lot of commercials on my favorite local conservative radio station from BP about their Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) projects (CCUS for “underground” storage), so my natural curiosity got aroused and decided to investigate it.

The World Economic Forum reports: “While such technologies have been commercially available for decades, only 30 CCUS projects are currently in operation across the globe, according to the Global CCS Institute. Another 11 are in construction and 153 are in development (in 2022 alone, 61 new CCUS projects were initiated).”

What is CCS/CCUS? For now, these systems primarily operate on industries that emit CO2 as a byproduct of their operations. Per BP  “CO2 is captured from various sources -- either before it escapes into the atmosphere or directly from the air. The captured CO2 is compressed or liquefied and then transported, usually by pipeline. The CO2 is then safely stored permanently and securely thousands of feet underground -- this process is often called “sequestration.””

Simple, right? Almost like that “clean” electricity that comes out of your wall plug to power those “clean” EV’s doesn’t come from coal or natural gas. Just don’t look behind the curtain and you’ll maintain your delusion of living in the magical land of Oz.

Let’s break down CCS:

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/04/another_climate_folly_carbon_capture_and_storage.html

Suppose it's like pornography:  You know it when you see it.

And we're not seeing it today.

Not everyone sees porn the same way (I guess based on what I've read about the 1st amendment protections it is given).

Not everyone sees greatness the  same way.

So I am going to have to disagree with you on this one.

Fast Friday thank-you's Pookie!

TGIF! It's that time again. You're off for the weekend!.

Below is your weekend homework assignment. Thought you'd sneak out of it, eh? ;D

My pleasure, as ever, Scott! I'm off on the w/e (except for posting), but still busy hunting & gathering images for next week's threads...

China is ‘moving at breathtaking speed in space,’ Space Force general says in Tokyo

By SETH ROBSON STARS AND STRIPES • April 25, 2024 The head of U.S. Space Command, Space

TOKYO — U.S. Space Command’s new leader warned of China’s rapidly advancing space capabilities this week following meetings with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts. “We’re seriously focused at U.S. Space Command on our pacing challenge, which is the People’s Republic of China,” Space Force Gen. Stephen Whiting told reporters during an online press conference from Japan’s capital Wednesday. The Tokyo stop was part of a tour that has included visits to South Korea and U.S. Indo-Pacific Command in Hawaii. Beijing is “moving at breathtaking speed in space,” Whiting said, noting that China is rapidly developing a range of counter-space weapons that threaten American space capabilities.

Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/branches/space_force/2024-04-25/space-force-china-japan-korea-13651897.html
Source - Stars and Stripes

BTW: Debt is way past 34 trillion.

Biden is headed for a 2.5 trillion dollar deficit this year.

We'll be at 40 trillion by the end of the decade.

I have not hear or seen anything from the MAGA crowd on that one.   

Making America better would include getting the debt under control and balancing the budget.

I might start a group called MASA: Make America Sane Again

or Make America Solvent Again.