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Further to the recent Talkshop article, confirmation that carbon capture is little more than a silly game using lots of energy and incurring vast costs for minimal or even net-negative of its hoped-for results.
By Steve Goreham~
The Environmental Protection Agency is working on a new rule that would set stringent limits on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from US power plants. Utilities would be required to retrofit existing plants with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology or to switch to hydrogen fuel. Others call for the use of CCS to decarbonize heavy industry. But the cost of capture and the amount of CO2 that proponents say needs to be captured crush any ideas about feasibility.
Carbon capture and storage is the process of capturing carbon dioxide from an industrial plant before it enters the atmosphere, transporting it, and storing it for centuries to millennia. Capture may be accomplished by filtering it from combustion exhaust streams. Pipelines are proposed to transport the captured CO2. Underground reservoirs could be used for storage. For the last two decades, advocates have proposed…
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switch to hydrogen fuel
Hang on a minute…
1. where are they going to get it from?
2. there’s a pollution problem with burning hydrogen/gas mixes in the atmosphere…
Clean Energy Group Warns Of High NOx From Hydrogen Gas Combustion
https://insideepa.com/share/227828
There is something in the air also in Australia, possibly because the new government last year, still wanting to “save the world” by reduce about 0.24% of human CO2 emissions.
Their solution is to store the CO2 gas in the depleted oil wells in Bass Strait.
The former head of the Snowy Authority has just blasted the plans (by the Energy Minister) and said that the 8 year plan would take 80 years. The fall out just after the Labor government took office was from the gas plant they previous Government wanted in NSW to ensure supply but Bowen (the incoming minister) wanted to use 30% hydrogen to feed it, desprite their being no supply in NSW which is short of electricity as well.
The trouble is, without viable CC, we will get far more restrictions. The Extremists won’t just give up, they will demand an end to flying, meat, all ICEs, all gas heating and cooking and if there’s not going to be CC, they will demand that happens now. The only question is, is there a point at which our idiot politicians push back?
MAY 2, 2023
U.K. Could Lose 75% Of Its Energy Supply By 2050 Under Net Zero
UK FIRES expects only one-quarter of electrical power to be available in 2050 compared with all other forecasts.
By 2050, electrical power will be the primary source of all energy. It notes that all other scenarios depend on negative emissions technologies such as carbon capture to deal with ‘residual emissions’ – shown in the graph in orange.
UK FIRES notes that it reflects the reality that to date, no such technologies are operating in the UK, and therefore it states that by 2050, “we should continue to anticipate that they would not exist.”
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Speaking to architects in 2021 at a RIBA climate conference, UK FIRES leader Cambridge-based Professor Julian Allwood said the UK Net Zero strategy is as unrealistic as “magic beans fertilized by unicorn’s blood”. [bold added]
https://climatechangedispatch.com/u-k-could-lose-75-of-its-energy-supply-by-2050-under-net-zero/
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