Carbon Capture and Storage has been heralded by some as the 'silver bullet' to enable a smooth transition to renewable energy while preventing existing greenhouse gas emissions reaching the atmosphere, or even, in the case of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), actually sucking CO2 back out of the air. But recent studies have shown these to be a completely false economy and yet another ruse by the fossil fuel industry. So, who should we believe?
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Reference Links
Just Have a Think - CCS video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlsjvKKugKI
Just Have a Think - BECCS video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ_5sLWhVyI&t=461s
Just Have a Think - Small Modular Nuclear Reactor video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr1ecjYFYTo
Oxford University Paper
https://www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-12/Assessing-the-relative-costs-of-high-CCS-and-low-CCS-pathways-to-1-5-degrees.pdf
Stanford paper - Jacobson et al (sadly, behind a paywall)
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.4c10686
Carbon Brief article
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-global-co2-emissions-will-reach-new-high-in-2024-despite-slower-growth/
Yale 360 article
https://e360.yale.edu/features/direct-air-capture
IPCC AR6 Summary for Policymakers
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_SYR_SPM.pdf
Oil Price Journal article about carbon capture
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Whats-Next-for-Carbon-Capture-Technology.html
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Levi Hildebrand:
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Simon Clark:
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Sarah Karvner:
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Our Changing Climate :
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National Grid Capacity Explainer
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