Carbon capture and storage is a placebo – but a dangerous one.

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technology represents the fossil fuel industry’s last stand. Hawking expensive, speculative technology to suck CO2 out of the air and store it underground — rather than transitioning away from fossil fuels — enables immensely profitable oil companies to continue business as usual while presenting themselves as part of the solution to the climate crisis.

  • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 天前

    The point is that it will cost more energy capturing it, than you got emitting it.

    Edit: if you had to use fossil fuels for energy in the first place, you won’t have the energy to spare to capture CO2 back when you’ve abandoned fossil fuels.