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Will sucking carbon from air ever really help tackle climate change?
Will sucking carbon from air ever really help tackle climate change? The direct air capture industry got a boost last week with the opening of Mammoth, the largest plant yet for sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, but questions remain about whether the technology can scale up. Humanity has spent the past few centuries […]
Will sucking carbon from air ever really help tackle climate change?
Will sucking carbon from air ever really help tackle climate change? The direct air capture industry got a boost last week with the opening of Mammoth, the largest plant yet for sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, but questions remain about whether the technology can scale up. Humanity has spent the past few centuries […]
Capturing Carbon With Machines Is a Failure—So Why Are We Subsidizing It?
Capturing Carbon With Machines Is a Failure—So Why Are We Subsidizing It? Human activity—mostly the burning of fossil fuels—has raised Earth’s atmospheric carbon content by 50 percent, from 280 parts per million (ppm) to 420 ppm. Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, we’ve released approximately 950 billion metric tons of carbon into the air. Every year, humans emit more than […]
Carbon capture is a fairytale solution to the climate crisis
Carbon capture is a fairytale solution to the climate crisis Billions of dollars for CCUS are gifts to the oil and gas industry — to keep the profits rolling in while distracting from real solutions Oil and gas companies are lobbying the federal government for billions in tax dollars to push an expensive and unproven technology […]
Shell’s Massive Carbon Capture Plant Is Emitting More Than It’s Capturing
Shell’s Massive Carbon Capture Plant Is Emitting More Than It’s Capturing A new Global Witness report found that it has the same carbon footprint per year as 1.2 million gas-powered cars. SHELL’S QUEST CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE FACILITY IN FORT SASKATCHEWAN, ALBERTA. THE CANADIAN PRESS/JASON FRANSON A first-of-its-kind “green” Shell facility in Alberta is emitting more […]
The world’s biggest carbon-removal plant just opened. In a year, it’ll negate just 3 seconds’ worth of global emissions.
The world’s biggest carbon-removal plant just opened. In a year, it’ll negate just 3 seconds’ worth of global emissions. ‘Orca,’ Climeworks’ new facility in Iceland, can capture 4,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year. Business Wire via AP The world’s biggest carbon-capture plant – which sucks carbon dioxide out of the air – just opened. A UN […]
Net zero policies are ’emperor’s new clothes,’ academics warn
Net zero policies are ’emperor’s new clothes,’ academics warn Credit: CC0 Public Domain Net zero targets are a “fantasy” that often just protect “business as usual,” a leading expert in environment and sustainability has said. Dr. James Dyke, Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, criticized net zero targets as […]
Huge carbon capture pipeline network proposed: Industry’s ‘delay-and-fail strategy’ rises again
Huge carbon capture pipeline network proposed: Industry’s ‘delay-and-fail strategy’ rises again An astute journalist I know once described carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a “delay-and-fail strategy” devised by the fossil fuel industry. The industry’s ploy was utterly obvious to him: Promise to perfect and deploy CCS at some vague point in the future. By […]
Carbon capture could require 25% of all global energy
Carbon capture could require 25% of all global energy Preface. This is clearly a pipedream. Surely the authors know this, since they say that the energy needed to run direct air capture machines in 2100 is up to 300 exajoules each year. That’s more than half of global energy consumption today. It’s equivalent to the current […]
Developing Country Issues at COP24 … and a Bit of Good News for Solar Power and Carbon Capture
Developing Country Issues at COP24 … and a Bit of Good News for Solar Power and Carbon Capture Photo Source Doman84 | CC BY 2.0 We humans are an interesting species … instead of seeing eye-to-eye, we are inclined to see eye-to-nose. We focus on the present and ourselves, particularly where our comfort is concerned, no […]
Carbon Capture – Does it Work?
Carbon Capture – Does it Work? Photo Source Nicholas A. Tonelli | CC BY 2.0 Harken! Good news (maybe) “encouraging news” is a better description, as Negative Emissions Technology (“NET”) starts coming into focus. Conceptually, carbon removal or direct air capture removes CO2 from the atmosphere, which would be great for suppressing climate change. In […]
