Carbon Capture On The Ropes At San Juan Coal Power Plant — Or Not
Why invest in carbon capture to clean up after coal, when you can skip the middleperson and pluck CO2 straight from the atmosphere?
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Carbon Capture: Bright Promise Or Senseless Boondoggle?
Carbon capture has a powerful allure. The Earth is overheating because there is too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. So why not suck out the excess, then store it in holes deep underground — there are thousands upon thousands of old oil and gas wells just waiting for some useful purpose to come along — or use it to make biofuel, fertilizer, medicine, and biodegradable plastics? It sounds like the ideal solution to a problem that affects us all.
Best Carbon Capture Facility In World Emits 25 Times More CO2 Than Sequestered
The best carbon capture site in the world, Norway’s Sleipner facility run by Equinor, creates 25 times more CO2 from natural gas than was sequestered. And is paid for the gas and the sequestered CO2.
Farming Carbon Capture Has Potential, But Is Not A Magic Bullet
Farming carbon capture has value beyond CO2, so is well worth pursuing even though it will be a slow and relatively small wedge.
Carbon Capture Or Not, Coal Goes Under Energy Storage Bus
Energy Secretary Rick Perry won’t pick sides, but it sure looks like he’s banking on anything but coal to power the green grid of the future.
Carbon Capture’s Global Investment Would Have Been Better Spent On Wind & Solar
Each year we are building wind and solar capacity that will displace roughly 9,000 million tons of CO2, over 100 times the total global carbon capture history. IPCC reliance on carbon capture is misplaced.
Investing In Renewable Energy Better Than Pouring Money Into Carbon Capture
In terms of energy efficiency, the worst renewable energy strategies are equal to the best carbon capture technology. Why would anyone choose a worst case scenario? Oh, right. Greed.
Air Carbon Capture’s Scale Problem: 1.1 Astrodomes For A Ton Of CO2
There are three problems with carbon capture and sequestration — capture, shipping and long-term disposal — and air carbon capture only deals poorly with the first of the three.
Why Excluding Nuclear, Fossils With Carbon Capture, & Biofuels From The Green New Deal Makes…
The Green New Deal and multiple proposed laws and resolutions in the U.S. House (HRes.540, HR.3314, HR.3671) and Senate (SRes.632, S.987) call for the United States to move entirely from fossil fuels to clean, renewable electricity and/or all energy. A new bill was just introduced by Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) and Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), calling for the U.S. to produce 100 percent of its electric power from renewables by 2035.
New Carbon Capture Research Emphasizes Recycling, Not Sequestration
Carbon capture is still alive and kicking, thanks in part to new systems that use carbon dioxide to generate electricity and produce sustainable hydrogen.
