We absolutely do need carbon capture research and development, along with gradually scaling up carbon capture projects.
Unfortunately, carbon capture is useless if we’re still burning fossil fuels for power, heat, and transport.
Carbon capture is actively harmful when used as an excuse to build new fossil fuel power plants.
Unfortunately, carbon capture is useless if we’re still burning fossil fuels for power, heat, and transport.
Carbon capture is actively harmful when used as an excuse to build new fossil fuel power plants.
Yeah, it’s a blank check to just produce more CO2.
Carbon capture is the best way to convert vague promises to subsidies.
If you can scale it up on renewables only to somewhere around a few million tons a year, then maybe.
Carbon Capture is hardly anything other than an excuse to not lower emissions and potentially their profits, on par with the nonsense argument we don’t need to lower emissions because unspecified magic technology will be invented to solve anything any day now.
Carbon Capture is literally a self imposed carbon tax for marketing reasons. The fact that it is an unregulated industry with no checks and balances is the problem, (EU are making improvements here).
I suggest you read up on carbon capture projects.
This is way overselling how effective it is in reality
Stupid 2nd law of thermodynamics always getting in the way.
We live in a democracy. We can change laws with a sufficient majority
Malcolm Turnbull vibes:
The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.
The courts will have a real hard time figuring out who actually created this universe so they can be sued.
Photocatalytic splitting of CO2 on liquid Metal could one day be really really effective and it doesn’t need an additional energy source.
Currently it’s just play pretend.
I have read somewhere, that the scenarios for becoming Carbon neutral in 2045 allways involve calculations using also some way of carbon capture. Not sure if true but it‘s definitely not reasuring for the path we‘re on.
I’ve heard climate scientists argue that most estimates they see are bullshit that isn’t grounded in the science and seems to exist purely to properly up the fossil fuel industry
With every fucking ai company asking for ever more data centers and in turn ludicrous amounts of electricity demand we can kiss carbon neutral by 2045 goodbye
About our only actual hope is a MASSIVE switch to nuclear power across the world and most cars switching to electric. And even then, we would need to address cow farts, industry, the burning of forests along with a host of our sources of greenhouse gasses. And even then we have missed our target goals by a mile so the globe will still heat up to disastrous levels.
It’s almost guaranteed that one of the larger countries with more population at risk from climate change will perform some unilateral attempt at geo-engineering, which could be either very good or very bad.
Capturing is good for cleaning up the last percentages. All the rest is stop blowing the stuff in the air in the first place.
Guys, hear me out. We take a gigantic carbon capture machine, and just pump as much electricity into it AS WE CAN. Because of the incredible energy consumption, we’ll be using the wood from the amazon rainforest as fuel, BUT IT’S OKAY because we’re just capturing that carbon. Oh also, governments gonna have to pay, it’s a social project after all.
In this scenario Big Oil is Diddy buying us a car, the car is carbon capture and storage, and we’re 14 year old Bieber.
