“That Was Quick” Category: Carbon Engineering Partners With Occidental To Pump More Oil
As predicted, Carbon Engineering’s air-carbon capture solution to be used by oil majors such as Occidental for enhanced oil recovery to no climate benefit.
As predicted, Carbon Engineering’s air-carbon capture solution to be used by oil majors such as Occidental for enhanced oil recovery to no climate benefit.
If Carbon Engineering is making e-diesel, driving the same distance in a freight truck would cost at least 6.5 times as much and have 16 times the CO2 emissions as just using electricity in a Tesla Semi.
Carbon Engineering will produce transportation fuels that cost 18-25 times more and have 22-35 the CO2e emissions as just using electricity in an EV
Carbon Engineering is planning to build high-cost and comparatively high-emission transportation fuels by combining their expensive CO2 with hydrogen which they will get via expensive electrolysis.
Air carbon capture, especially as Carbon Engineering is doing it, is a fig leaf for the fossil fuel industry.
Carbon Engineering’s solution is only useful in tapped-out oil wells and as greenwashing for fossil fuel companies.
Carbon Engineering’s solution would require 2-kilometer long, 20 meter high walls of noisy fans to capture 4 orders of magnitude less carbon than would be useful.
Carbon Engineering’s solution is a natural gas hog that produces a half ton of new CO2 for each ton captured from the air.
To scale to an inadequate million tons of CO2 a year, the company would need 2,000 two-meter fans blowing air into contactors in an array 20 meters high, 8 meters thick, and two kilometers long.
Two new reports published within days of one another have outlined the difficulties inherent in continuing anything close to “business-as-usual” for oil and gas companies around the world, and the increasing pressure to begin transitioning to low-carbon operations.