Carbon capture and storage won’t work, critics say

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Carbon capture and storage won’t work, critics say
January 14th, 2021, by Paul Brown

If only … we could capture carbon and store it safely. Image: By Malcolm Lightbody on Unsplash

Carbon capture and storage, trapping carbon before it enters the atmosphere, sounds neat. But many doubt it can ever work.

LONDON, 14 January, 2021 − One of the key technologies that governments hope will help save the planet from dangerous heating, carbon capture and storage, will not work as planned and is a dangerous distraction, a new report says.

Instead of financing a technology they can neither develop in time nor make to work as claimed, governments should concentrate on scaling up proven technologies like renewable energies and energy efficiency, it says.

The report, from Friends of the Earth Scotland and Global Witness, was commissioned by the two groups from researchers at the UK’s Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.

https://climatenewsnetwork.net/carbon-capture-and-storage-wont-work-critics-say/

[thackney]

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....

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We already have a carbon capture and storage system.   It's called 'the ocean'.