Illinois Carbon Capture Project Captures Almost No Carbon
Carbon capture holds tremendous promise — if it works. But in the real world, it doesn’t and is costing taxpayers billions.
Carbon Capture (CCS)
UN Agreements On Oceanic Geoengineering Don’t Cover Dominant Land-Based Systems
This morning I had an excellent conversation with a lawyer with a maritime environmental non-governmental organization, Stephanie Hewson at the West Coast Environmental Law Association. She is preparing to testify to one of the highest legislative bodies in the country that they are based in, Canada’s Senate, regarding concerns about … [continued]
Carbon Capture And Sequestration — The Dream That Won’t Die
Carbon capture is touted as the answer to all our climate woes, but no one really knows what to do with it once it is removed from the air.
We Can’t Wait For Carbon Removal Technologies To Reduce GHG Emissions
In 2015 world leaders gathered in Paris and sang praises about their collective ability to set measured goals to stop anthropogenic climate change. Limiting global warming to 1.5°C would require “rapid and deep and in most cases immediate GHG emission reductions in all sectors,” the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change … [continued]
UK To Pour $28 Billion Into Carbon Capture & Storage Over 25 Years
Elections have consequences. The newly installed Labour government in the UK announced this week that it will pump £22 billion (approximately $28 billion) into carbon capture and storage schemes over the next 25 years. The Guardian reports the move came after an extensive round of high pressure lobbying by fossil … [continued]
Breakthrough Energy Venture’s Wilted Garden Of Climate Investments
Recently I sat down with Laurent Segalen and Gerard Reid, European cleantech investors, on their podcast Redefining Energy to talk about Breakthrough Energy Venture’s big misses. This followed our conversation about the cognitive biases of the billionaires such as Bill Gates which have persisted due to a bubble of confirmation … [continued]
CCUS Is Mostly An Oil & Gas Shell Game — SFU Seminar Slides & Notes
A few months ago, Sami Khan, a Simon Fraser University Professor and MIT engineering PhD, reached out to me. He’d read something I’d published on ocean geoengineering and wanted to know if I was interested in talking with his PhD, master’s degree, and undergraduate students about the subject, and carbon … [continued]
Electricity From Carbon Dioxide
When I first read about the work of the University of Queensland research team claiming to create electricity from CO2, my initial thought was that this was a cross between a fossil fuel funded beatup and a fairytale. But, digging deeper, and talking with Dr Zhuyuan Wang of UQ’s ARC … [continued]
Canada Continues Massive Financial Support For Fossil Fuels
Canada continues to provide massive subsidies for fossil fuels while promising to cut emissions. It can’t do both.
CCS Redux: Carbon Engineering’s Diesel? Just Put Electricity Into Tesla Semi Instead
For the same energy inputs you could travel 3 times as far for a 5th the CO2 emissions and well under half the cost in an electric truck.
