Australian scientists say they have discovered how an enzyme “hidden in nature’s blueprint” could help develop climate-resilient crops able to remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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."
"The head of the IPCC has compared the rollout of carbon capture and storage (#CCS) to "trying to push water uphill," questioning a technology that the oil and gas industry has long touted as integral to net-zero emission plans.
The International Energy Agency has previously called for the oil and gas industry to let go of the "illusion" that carbon capture is a solution to climate change, pushing instead for energy majors to ramp up investments in clean energy."
Lies, damn lies, and "carbon capture and sequestration"
"Projections of the size and scale of a future #CCS industry should come with heavy doses of scepticism."
Also:
"When the Australian reported that “#Australia could generate nearly $600bn in revenue”, what we are actually referring to is revenue for the organisations proposing #CarbonCapture and storage projects. Right now, that’s mostly oil and gas companies."