Carbon capture is overhyped. Will this work? Harm nearby residents?
Surviving energy transition:
The audacious initiative isn't w/o critics. Many residents of the Latino comms. near the oil field where the carbon will be stored *concerned about the safety of stashing such huge volumes of the #GHG underground a few miles from their homes. Some CA #climate activists are skeptical that the potential benefits of #carboncapture are worth extending a lifeline to the oil f-.
Also, to put the 36 thousand tons of CO2 the plant can capture into perspective: The average German person emits ~11 tons CO2 per year. Hence the plant can remove the yearly carbon output of ~3300 German citizens.
So the worlds largest plant will not even be able to compensate the carbon put out by a small German town…
No matter how you revolutionize CO2 capture, you're just storing impending doom until you convert it to a stable form that doesn't float away and cause global warming (and mass deaths if a pipeline breaks or the earth burps.)
#Shell sold millions of 'phantom' #CarbonCredits to Canadian oil sands firms - FT
"Shell sold millions of carbon credits tied to CO2 removal that never took place to #Canada's largest oil sands companies, Financial Times reported Sunday, raising new doubts about a technology seen as important in reducing greenhouse gas emissions."
Shell operates Quest, a "carbon storage" facility in Alberta. Alberta allowed Shell to register twice as many carbon credits as they actually stored, which it sold to other fossil fuel companies as indulgences. Without actually storing half of the carbon covered by the credits.
#CarbonCapture is not "economically feasible" and wasn't even trying to permanently sequester the CO2 because the reaction that shifts carbon from being a stable fuel to a greenhouse gas is what releases the energy of ancient sunshine. It has always just been a stall tactic for stranded investments in fossil fuel infrastructure
"Edmonton-based Capital Power Corp. says it is no longer pursuing its proposed $2.4-billion #CarbonCapture and storage project at its #Genesee natural gas-fired power plant.
The company says it has decided the project at the power plant west of Edmonton is technically viable but not economically feasible."
Startup companies and researchers are experimenting with ‘marine carbon dioxide removal’ by altering the chemistry of the ocean and sinking biomass to the seafloor.
Scientists Are Trying to Coax the Ocean to Absorb More CO2
Startup companies and researchers are experimenting with ‘marine carbon dioxide removal’ by altering the chemistry of the ocean and sinking biomass to the seafloor.
Here's some more good news on our efforts to stop global warming.
A new road resurfacing material which enables the production of net zero asphalt has been used in the UK for the first time, in County Durham.
The material incorporates a carbon negative aggregate and recycled asphalt planings from another scheme in County Durham, contributing to a circular economy and demonstrating our commitment to sustainable solutions.
Capturing CO2 to put into the building materials that we need in order to build more efficient and resilient buildings and infrastructure is a win/win!
Austria’s ‘first large-scale carbon capture’ to turn emissions into construction materials.
The ‘circular’ process will be made possible by the ‘first industrial large-scale carbon capture and utilisation (CCUS) plant in Austria’!
"#Texas has emerged as a leader in producing #hydrogen the cheaper way using abundant supplies of natural gas without capturing the carbon dioxide.
Little hydrogen is made from gas with #CarbonCapture or from water in the state — or the rest of the country.
Environmental groups worry the federal funding will prop up oil and gas companies, when the emphasis should be on making hydrogen from water or creating clean power another way."
It seems that, as with the introduction of new animals (#neobiota, e.g. rabbits to #Australia) the introduction of new plants( #neophytes*) can be a huge source of disruption regional #ecosystems as well.
After reading through the aforementioned article about #grasslands, I now begin to understand the complexities involved.
...of view, any such prospective change (#e.g. #reforestation) will involve a #ChaoticSystem. These are sensitively dependent on initial conditions, something better known as the #ButterflyEffect.
So, as your example shows, by trying to "fix" the #climate we might actually be making things even worse.
...of view, any such prospective change (#e.g. #reforestation) will involve a #ChaoticSystem. These are sensitively dependent on initial conditions, something better known as the #ButterflyEffect.
So, as your example shows, by trying to "fix" the #climate we might actually be making things even worse.
I'm not a biologist or climatologist, but there are seem...
Clean Energy Pickups: Giving the context behind week's news highlights
-Capture carbon and get green hydrogen as a bonus
-Ammonia is vital for agriculture but produces ~2% of world carbon emissions. Startups develop tech to zap water, add air, and get green ammonia
Scientists Are Trying to Coax the Ocean to Absorb More CO2 (lighthouse-eco.co.za)
Startup companies and researchers are experimenting with ‘marine carbon dioxide removal’ by altering the chemistry of the ocean and sinking biomass to the seafloor.
Scientists Discover How to Convert CO2 into Powder That Can Be Stored for Decades (lighthouse-eco.co.za)
A team of scientists has figured out how to convert planet-warming CO2 into a harmless powdery fuel that could be converted into clean electricity