Claim: Carbon Capture Vital to Meeting Climate Goals

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Claim: Carbon Capture Vital to Meeting Climate Goals
 
Guest essay by Eric Worrall

Carbon capture vs Renewable Energy? Proponents of contradictory green visions for Britain’s future are fighting over British PM Boris Johnson’s renewable energy policy largesse.

    Carbon capture is vital to meeting climate goals, scientists tell green critics

    Supporters insist that storage technology is not a costly mistake but the best way for UK to cut emissions from heavy industry

    Robin McKie

    Sun 17 Jan 2021 04.36 AEDT

    Engineers and geologists have strongly criticised green groups who last week claimed that carbon capture and storage schemes – for reducing fossil fuel emissions – are costly mistakes.

    The scientists insisted that such schemes are vital weapons in the battle against global heating and warn that failure to set up ways to trap carbon dioxide and store it underground would make it almost impossible to hold net emissions to below zero by 2050.

    “Carbon capture and storage is going to be the only effective way we have in the short term to prevent our steel industry, cement manufacture and many other processes from continuing to pour emissions into the atmosphere,” said Professor Stuart Haszeldine, of Edinburgh University.

    “If we are to have any hope of keeping global temperature [increases] down below 2 degrees C then we desperately need to develop ways to capture and store carbon dioxide.”

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/01/18/claim-carbon-capture-vital-to-meeting-climate-goals/

[Fishrrman]

Another scheme that simply will not work.

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A recent attempt near me.

Problems plagued U.S. CO2 capture project before shutdown: document
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-energy-carbon-capture/problems-plagued-u-s-co2-capture-project-before-shutdown-document-idUSKCN2523K8
AUGUST 6, 2020

A $1 billion project to harness carbon dioxide emissions from a Texas coal plant suffered chronic mechanical problems and routinely missed its targets before it was shut down this year, according to a report submitted by the project’s owners to the U.S. Department of Energy.

The Petra Nova plant’s performance was seen as a major test of emerging efforts to capture planet-warming gases and store them below ground, a technology considered crucial to companies and governments hoping to fight climate change.

The joint venture project between NRG Energy Inc and Japan’s JX Nippon had received a $190 million grant from the U.S. government. Before being mothballed, it was the only U.S. project capturing carbon from a coal-fired power plant....