Carbon Sequestration: Too Little, Too Late?
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/531531/carbon-sequestration-too-little-too-late/[font size=4]A few carbon capture and sequestration projects are under way, but economics and politics are holding the technology back.[/font]
By David Talbot on October 13, 2014
[font size=3]To impede climate change, scientific studies suggest, billions of tons of carbon dioxide need to be captured from hundreds of fossil-fuel power plants in the next few decades—and as soon as possible. Without large-scale carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), other measures—including rollouts of renewable and nuclear power—will not avert catastrophic climate effects in the coming century and beyond (see “The Carbon Capture Conundrum”).
CCS technologies are getting more sophisticated and efficient, and a few full-scale projects are going online. At the same time, researchers warned last week in Austin, Texas, at the world’s largest conference on CCS that the technology remains economically practical in only a few situations.
The most significant recent advance was the opening of a 110-megawatt coal power and CCS plant in Saskatchewan, called Boundary Dam, built by the provincial utility SaskPower (see “In a First, Commercial Coal Plant Buries Its CO2”). Michael Monea, president of SaskPower’s carbon capture and storage initiatives, spoke with almost religious fervor at the conference about the project, which will capture 90 percent of its carbon dioxide. “Build more of them, build them bigger, and it will have an effect on the world—I believe that,” he said.
That plant will use the CO2 it captures to help push more oil out of the ground, a process called enhanced oil recovery, or EOR. The sale of the carbon dioxide for EOR is a key mechanism to financing early CCS projects, but this application of carbon burial tends to perpetuate the problem.
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The fact that it is a huge scam run by con-men has nothing to do with it at all does it?
Still, at least this shows the guy is telling the truth:
> Michael Monea, president of SaskPower’s carbon capture and storage initiatives,
> spoke with almost religious fervor ...
> “Build more of them, build them bigger, and it will have an effect on the world—I believe that,”
Yep. I believe it too. I believe it will truly f*ck the world up even more than at present.
The difference between us is that I have factual evidence that supports my belief ... he only
has his "almost religious fervor (sic)".
That evidence is in plain sight:
> That plant will use the CO2 it captures to help push more oil out of the ground,
> a process called enhanced oil recovery, or EOR. The sale of the carbon dioxide for EOR is
> a key mechanism to financing early CCS projects, but this application of carbon burial
> tends to perpetuate the problem.
So, all of the "early" Carbon Capture Scam projects will be knowingly making the problem
worse and the "economics & politics" will guarantee that this application is the only one
that CCS is used for.
Bastards.
