Hawthorn, flowers just opening. We planted this #hedge in 2019. For rapid #CarbonCapture capture scrub outperforms #trees though in a 15-30 year timescale the trees will take over. The trees will also do better with the hedge for cover. As well as being full of buds this hedge is full of #birds, biodiversity and carbon capture hand in hand.
"When #CO2#pipelines fail, they can fail catastrophically, putting human lives in danger. Experts say this risk isn't widely understood, even as governments plot a huge #CO2Pipeline expansion as part of their #CarbonCapture plans.
To transport CO2, it's transformed from a gas to a liquid by putting it under high pressure, she explained. “If and when failures happen in the pipeline, it all comes rushing out in this great blast.”"
"#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."
The #epas new rule "is expected to require #coal and natural #gas#PowerPlants to cut or capture almost all their carbon dioxide emissions by 2040. But that’s a decade sooner than most of the nation’s largest power producers are aiming to be net #carbon free."
UN chief Antonio Guterres has launched another strong attack on fossil fuel companies, accusing them of betraying future generations and undermining efforts to phase out a product he called “incompatible with human survival.”
He also dismissed #carboncapture plans by some oil executives — including the man tapped to chair the #COP28#climate talks — saying that without real emissions cuts they would just become “more efficient planet-wreckers.”
With regard to carbon capture, does this actually solve the wide issue of greenhouse emissions. I was under the impression that CO_2 is the MAIN greenhouse gas, however there are other gasses that contribute to the greenhouse effect.
So by removing CO_2 we solve part of the issue, only for cars, that are pumping out CO_2 they are also pumping out other gasses such as Oxides of Nitrogren and Sulful as well as carciogens such as Benzine, as well as particulates that are also dangerous to human health.
So how much does carbon capture actually solve the problem, when we just need to reduce these emissions, and plant more trees.
This is a relatively thorough account of everything that is bad/will go wrong about plans for carbon capture in inland #California and yet it's presented in the context of, they're doing it anyway
Will storing CO2 in old oil fields slow global warming? First #California plan nears approval
"At least two earlier versions of the proposal planned to capture CO2 and inject it inside aging oil wells to flush out more petroleum. In 2022, however, the state Legislature passed a bill banning #CarbonCapture projects from boosting oil production."
But there are still risks around leaks and pipeline ruptures, especially near population centers.
Carbon capture subsidies promise a windfall for big oil and gas - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/10/09/carbon-capture-oil-gas/ “The irony of #CarbonCapture is that the place it has proven most successful is getting more oil out of the ground. All but one major project built in the United States to date is geared toward fossil fuel companies taking the trapped carbon and injecting it into underground wells to extract crude.
"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."
"Iowa-based Summit Carbon Solutions and Nebraska-based Navigator CO2 Ventures have both proposed huge #pipelines to move #carbon siphoned from Midwest ethanol plants to underground storage sites in other states.
In #NorthDakota, #SouthDakota, #Iowa, and #Illinois, however, the companies have had their permit applications rejected, or have had to slow work due to concerns from landowners along the proposed routes about safety and impacts to farms."
#ClimateChange#GlobalWarming#CarbonCapture: "If we’re going to prevent the gravest dangers of global warming, experts agree, removing significant amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is essential. That’s why, over the past few years, projects focused on growing seaweed to suck CO2 from the air and lock it in the sea have attracted attention—and significant amounts of funding—from the US government and private companies including Amazon.
The problem: farming enough seaweed to meet climate-change goals may not be feasible after all.
A new study, published today in Nature Communications Earth & Environment, estimates that around a million square kilometers of ocean would need to be farmed in order to remove a billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere over the course of a year. It’s not easy to come by that amount of space in places where seaweed grows easily, given all the competing uses along the coastlines, like shipping and fishing."
'Let’s face facts. The problem is not simply fossil fuel emissions. It’s fossil fuels — period... We are hurtling towards disaster, eyes wide open, with far too many willing to bet it all on wishful thinking, unproven technologies & silver bullet solutions.!
His eye is on the #fossilfuels firms' ability to make #COP28 about #carboncapture & not the more pressing need to reduce use & production of fossil fuels.
Direct air capture of CO2 will allow for "net-zero" oil to be produced and consumed. The #ClimateCrisis is solved!
Not only will #BigOil be able to profit from first selling #FossilFuel then again from cleaning up (some of) the damages (at exorbitant rates only made possible by huge government subsidies into #CarbonCapture technologies), but it will also be able to gas light us into thinking it's good for the environment.
Industrial carbon capture technologies are mostly a distraction from what we really need to do right now: phase out fossil fuels and deploy more effective climate solutions.
Don't Fall for Big Oil's Carbon Capture Deceptions - by @globalecoguy
I heard on NPR this morning that the Biden admin is heavily committed to carbon capture and storage (not a surprise), which includes pipelines to transport the captured carbon to its storage point, possibly in the middle of the USA's national forests and grasslands. Somehow I didn't know about the pipelines. What a fucking travesty. Why a travesty? Because it takes materials and emits pollution to build pipelines, and the pipelines themselves are guaranteed to spill carbon as well, just like the methane pipelines are emitting methane right now.
"Net zero" is a lie; the only real path to harmonious life on earth is decarbonization and electrification.
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
U.S. unveils plans for large facilities to capture carbon directly from air (www.science.org)
$1.2 billion program marks a global first for a controversial strategy for fighting climate change
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.