Rachel Reeves's budget promises "£3.9 billion of funding in 2025-26 for Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage Track-1 project". That's money straight down the toilet, with many billions more to follow. It's infuriating. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/11/labour-carbon-capture-climate-breakdown
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSZgoFyuHC8
It’s a pretend solution, that companies and governments can pour billions into to claim to be doing something, whilst in reality just continuing business as usual. They probably claim it as a tax write off as well.
It’s a smokescreen (ha!) to make people think we can go on burning fossil fuels indefinitely.
Yes, DAC will definitely be needed eventually, but it's really expensive for what it achieves, where there's loads of way better things to do first.
Here's a brief vid
https://youtu.be/1dRgCsZ1q7g?si=Lp70DBVGSv56Y-yp
Even if we did, there's only so much can be achieved at once (thermodynamics), so best to do the most effective for a given amount of work, then work down the list.
Now what was that about fiscal responsibility?
It's still not cost effective enough presently for full-scale roll-out, compared to all the other things, but it is a CCS thing needing investment for implementation later.
https://youtu.be/pIz_cMqg3_A?si=R7ElMs54zjdC-mc-