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…
#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."
@CelloMomOnCars Nature's evolved carbon sinks are probably as overall efficient as anything is likely to be.
If it took nature a half a billion years to store all the carbon we released, we can expect it to take the same to put it back unless we're willing to burn money without financial ROI on the project.
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.
"#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."
@CelloMomOnCars
Hydrogen is the fuel of the future and always will be.
Renewable electricity is an off the shelf technology.
“Now is better than new” for coping with the climate crisis.
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
This was published on March 1, 2024, which is in the future.
Consider yourself lucky, time traveler!
But actually, #CarbonCapture is bullshit, and subsidies for captured carbon for enhanced recovery will soon breathe new life into fracking that uses CO2 instead of water. A company in the Southern Tier of NY is trying to do that now.
My latest story, a long time in the making, is finally out so head over to Pellicle Mag and see what a "delicious, crisp, refreshing, weird apple-y beer" has to do with carbon capture and alcohol-free brewing.