How the failure of carbon capture risks causing a net zero nightmare

Meanwhile Miliband’s plans to rely on carbon capture are in ruins

The Carbon Capture Con

The only certain outcome from CCUS is more expensive electricity and a waste of energy resources to do all the separation, compressing and pumping.

The Cost of EPA’s Senseless CO2 Capture

Finally, besides being expensive and futile, keep in mind: Plants need CO2, along with sunlight, water, and nutrients from the soil to produce oxygen and food, both of which are…

Green Blob Tells Government to Spend £30 Billion on Machine to Remove CO2 From the Air

In other words, the green agenda has produced a useless machine whose only function is to produce designs for useless machines.

Britain must spend £30bn to strip CO2 from atmosphere and hit net zero, experts warn

And as the report admits, they have no idea how or whether this daft idea will actually work. So they also have no idea of its cost – it might…

Study: Aussie Outback Carbon Offset Tree Planting “… not reducing emissions as promised …”

Another carbon offset success story?

Welsh Government Backs Carbon Sequestration Plan

Wales has some of the most expensive electricity in Britain, but the financial geniuses who run Wales have a plan which will push energy prices up even higher.

Scientists Look to Fight Climate Change by Dumping 6,000 Gallons of Chemicals into Ocean Near Martha’s Vineyard

A team of scientists is looking to dump chemicals into waters off the coast of Massachusetts this summer to research whether doing so could be an effective counter to ocean…

St Ives Bay Carbon Capture Trial ‘Very Low Risk’ – Report

…the idea of chucking large volumes of chemicals into one small area of sea seems highly irresponsible.

Drax Carbon Capture Could Cost Bill Payers £40 Billion

Analysts have predicted that the revamp of the North Yorkshire site could be one of the most expensive energy projects in the world.

Coal power station Drax to win approval for net zero carbon capture plan

Drax, once the UK’s dirtiest coal-fired power station, is set to stoke renewed controversy as ministers prepare to approve a multibillion-pound CO2 capture scheme it claims would make it “carbon negative”.

475 Carbon Capture Lobbyists Attending COP28

The Lake Nyos disaster demonstrated an uncontrolled urban release of concentrated CO2 has the potential to kill millions of people. But this risk doesn’t seem to bother companies chasing funding.

US Proposes Carbon Storage Under Nations Forests

This introduces a rather ironic scenario where forest land could be compromised for the sake of environmental protection.

Navigator CO2 Ventures cancels carbon-capture pipeline project in US Midwest

The people united to resist Navigator at every level in every corner of every state and we won,

Carbon Capture: BUSTED!?

Strong believer in catastrophic AGW shoots down the economics of carbon capture.

Carbon Offsets from Forest Conservation Projects have Been Overestimated

…there has been little rigorous evidence as to whether the projects deliver on their promises.

Biden’s Multi-Billion Dollar Carbon Capture Gamble

Instead of costly ventures with dubious returns, it might be wiser to reevaluate our stance on carbon dioxide and refocus our resources more judiciously.

Biden EPA Unveils New CO2 Crackdown On Coal & Natural Gas Power Plants – Claim to achieve ‘climate and public health benefits’

…they are hellbent on doing everything in their power to regulate coal and gas-fueled power plants out of existence, no matter the cost to energy security and reliability,

EPA’s CCS requirement is illegal; The agency blocked its Science Advisory Board from saying so 10 years ago

From JunkScience Steve Milloy EPA proposed today that utilities stop burning coal and natural gas by 2040 unless power plants can be outfitted with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. The agency…

The Practical Impossibility of Large-Scale Carbon Capture and Storage

From MasterResource By Steve Goreham — May 2, 2023 “CCS has been slow to take off due to the cost of capture and the limited salability of carbon dioxide as…

Carbon Capture & Storage: ExxonMobil’s Big Political Play

Carbon capture and storage is a “loss leader” for ExxonMobil to officially greenwash.

Geoengineering: New Area for the Climate Industrial Complex?

Today’s climate/energy policy has created many eco-sins from just about anyone’s viewpoint.

New study settles long-standing debate: Does agricultural erosion create a carbon sink or source

Timescales reconcile the paradox

No, NBC News, Giving the Ocean Antacids Will Not Help Curb Climate Change

Adding antacids won’t have any effect on the temperature dependent chemical process in the oceans, and these researchers will soon discover that their efforts would be miniscule in the big…

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