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Consumers ending up shouldering most of the costs of installing and operating CCS in the UK, a new report has found.

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), het afvangen en opslaan van CO2, wordt voorgesteld als een belangrijke stap in het vergroenen van de industrie. Volgens critici belooft de technologie echter veel meer dan die eigenlijk kan geven, terwijl de kosten ervan veel hoger liggen. Door te hard in te zetten op CCS dreigen we de boot te missen om onze samenleving duurzaam te hervormen.

Group says forcing polluters to store carbon dioxide underground is needed to help world reach net zero

Carbon capture and storage schemes, a key plank of many governments’ net zero plans, “is not a climate solution”, the author of a major new report on the technology has said. Researchers for the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) found underperforming carbon capture projects considerably outnumbered successful ones by large margins.

From turning CO2 into rock to capturing the breath of office workers, a growing number of companies think the answer is yes

Operators say the Orca plant can suck 4,000 tonnes of CO2 out of the air every year and inject it deep into the ground to be mineralised

The industry has been pushing through policies devoting billions of dollars to the technology, and much more is likely to come with legislation pending before Congress.

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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 the time people catch on that CCS won’t work, the fossil fuel industry will have successfully extended the time it has operated without onerous regulation for another couple of decades.

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Les procédés artificiels de capture et de stockage du carbone (CSC) suscitent la convoitise des investisseurs. Derrière le filtre « vert », explique l’auteur de cette tribune, se trouve la promesse d’une activité coûteuse à l’excès qui servira à favoriser l’exploitation d’hydrocarbures.

Selon certains chercheurs, réduire nos émissions de CO2 n’est pas suffisant pour déjouer le dérèglement climatique en cours. Afin de mettre toutes les chances de notre côté, il faudrait démocratiser les moyens de capture de ce même CO2. La technologie existe, mais la question suivante se pose : l’humanité doit-elle massivement parier dessus ?