‘Billions Spent, Atmosphere Doesn’t Notice’ – The fraud of carbon capture
By Admin
September 28, 2025
8:11 am
By Willis Eschenbach
Let’s take a deep, calming breath and contemplate the economic magic trick of the decade: carbon capture à la King Charles and Prime Minister Starmer. Picture this: The UK government throws £21.7 billion with a B (which happens to be nearly $29.3 billion Yankee bucks) into two grand, green steel-and-concrete machines in Teesside and Merseyside. These beauties, when (if) they fire up in 2028, will snatch up to 8.5 million tonnes of CO₂ out of the slipstream every year. This is called “CCS”, for Carbon Capture and Storage.
Oh, and did I mention that they’re pumping the CO2 offshore and injecting it underground? The CO2 will be injected into the Endurance saline aquifer, a geological formation under the North Sea around 1,300–1,500 meters below the seabed … and they say there’s a “99.9% chance” that this method will actually work. And they know that because their whiz-bang computer models say so, so shut up and go along with the plan.
Now, I can already hear the thunderous applause from the well-meaning climate crusaders. Brace yourself. That annual haul? It’s a minuscule 0.02% of global CO₂ emissions—yes, friends, two hundredths of a percent. For those playing along at home, even if the plant runs flawlessly for two decades, the lifetime grand total is 170 million tonnes of CO₂—a drop in the atmospheric bucket.
Here’s where the mathematical calculations graduate from tragicomedy to farce.
https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/09/28/billions-spent-atmosphere-doesnt-notice-the-fraud-of-carbon-capture/
