The U.S. is betting it can drill climate-friendly hydrogen just like oil. The idea is to extract hydrogen from underground reservoirs and capture the carbon dioxide byproduct. This could create a low-carbon fuel source, but also raise environmental and economic concerns.

#Hydrogen #Drilling #CarbonCapture

https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-bets-it-can-drill-climate-friendly-hydrogen-just-oil?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=HariTulsidas%2Fmagazine%2FArchetypes

#CarbonCapture is a fraud.

This phrases it well:

> Literally all ideas about carbon capture are quickly revealed to be cynical greenwashing if you think about one simple thing: how much CO2 do we need to store to offset global emissions? The answer is that we need to store almost 40B tonnes of CO2, or around 10B tonnes of C if we break that down, every year. That's something on the order of 1500 great pyramids of Giza (which weighs 6M tonnes) worth of carbon every year

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37451080

Great job, #SouthDakota!

https://newstarget.com/2023-09-07-south-dakota-regulators-end-green-carbon-capture.html

#ClimateCult #CarbonCapture

Great job, #SouthDakota! #ClimateCult #CarbonCapture

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-09-07-south-dakota-regulators-end-green-carbon-capture.html

We asked bestselling #FireWeather author #JohnVaillant his thoughts on the #PathwaysAlliance's big ask for 50 BILLION in Canadian taxpayer dollars to clean up their act via #CarbonCapture & he didn't pull any punches. What are YOUR thoughts about it?

PODCAST: https://www.podcastics.com/episode/250741/link/

#ClimateTurnedTheCorner #FireWeather #EndTheMoratorium #abpoli #yyc #Yellowknife #Kelowna #cdnpoli #Wildfires

What is #carboncapture?
The U.S. is investing in technologies that keep #CO2 out of industrial #emissions — or that remove it from the #atmosphere

https://theweek.com/climate-change/1026181/what-is-carbon-capture

Their chose different words - instead of "nonviable technology" they say "Actions Needed to Improve Management", but the report speaks for itself.

Of nineteen projects funded, only three are operational - and those three are consistently failing to meet their capture targets.

Carbon capture is not a solution for the climate crisis. We need to stop burning fossil fuels, as soon as possible.

#EndFossilFuels #PhaseOutFossilFuels #ClimateCrisis #CarbonCapture #OilAndGas #OilAndGas #OOTT

Carbon Capture projects are not economically viable, even when they are being lavished with subsidies.

Money, time, and resources are being wasted on these projects, which will have no impact on atmospheric carbon concentrations.

How can we know CCS is not a viable technology? The US Government Accountability Office published a very complete report about the economics of CCS projects in 2021.

#EndFossilFuels #PhaseOutFossilFuels #ClimateCrisis #CarbonCapture #OilAndGas #OilAndGas #OOTT

There is no "net" zero - there is only zero emissions, once we stop burning oil, gas, and coal. And we need to get there as soon as possible.

#EndFossilFuels #PhaseOutFossilFuels #Energy #CarbonCapture #OilAndGas

Don't believe Them when They advocate #technology as a solution to our ills. It's not.

#carboncapture
#AI
#satellite broadband
#lithium battery cars

All the above are making things worse, not better. They are #capitalist ploys to retain the status quo for as long as possible.

We need #degrowth

@cowvin plants do capture carbon, but they don't really *store* it. Most plants have a very short lifetime and, when they die, the captured carbon is returned to the environment. Even during their lifetime, plants release some of that carbon as fallen leaves or branches. That's the short term carbon cycle.

Real carbon storage is only viable deep underground in deposits of fossilised organic matter that take millenia to form. That's the (very) long term carbon cycle.

Even *if* we could grow huge forests to capture some of the excess carbon we have been extracting from the long term carbon cycle, we would only be postponing the inevitable until we run out of space to grow trees and overload the short term carbon cycle.

The *only* sensible response to the emergency situation we are living is to *completely* and *immediately* stop extracting carbon from long term reserves.

@breadandcircuses

#Greenwashing #GreenGrowth #ClimateCrisis #CarbonCapture #CarbonSink

@deonandan Here’s the article I was thinking about.

My bias is that talk of #CarbonCapture is oil and gas (and politicians) attempting greenwashing and distraction. My bias may also be that, because #Daniellezebub is pushing it, it is likely thus.

https://mastodon.world/@davidho/110896037084144547

@deonandan I read this article that places the cart-horse a little differently maybe?

Hmm.. this is not the one I was thinking of.. still looking.. but argues similarly that extolling #Carboncapture is predominantly a fools errand at best and dire action from reduction at worst.

https://mastodonapp.uk/@MarkHoltom/110807561763761880

@breadandcircuses This piece touches on it (#4) but this funding is actually *worse* than doing nothing:

"”Occidental’s CEO, Vicki Hollub, said at an oil and gas conference in March that direct air capture will help “preserve our industry over time,” lending weight to fears among environmental groups that carbon removal could extend the social license for oil companies to continue operating for decades.”"

#CarbonCapture is actually a greenwashed subsidy for oil & gas.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/11/1077756/the-us-just-invested-more-than-1-billion-into-carbon-removal/

OUTRAGEOUS😡

Biden Admin is backing industrial #CarbonCapture schemes that mostly benefit #BigOil–bolstering their bottom lines & extending a PR lifeline that ensures they CAN CONTINUE POLLUTING – all under the LIE of #ClimateAction

#lies

https://drawdown.org/news/insights/stop-giving-big-oil-a-carbon-fig-leaf

I do what I can to help carbon capture by using the best available 'technology' for the job - I plant trees. #CarbonCapture

egads. when those mangroves are gone, cyclones are going to wipe out the people there.

They want to quit. they just need another way to feed their families. #Indonesia #deforestation #charcoal

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66393515

This is were sensible low tech #CarbonDrawdown would really make sense. They could be growing bamboo and using those furnaces to turn it into #biochar $1 billion spent there would go a lot farther than paying fossil fuel companies for high tech #CarbonCapture schemes.

"Carbon-capture gold rush an ‘insult’ to locals in emissions-hit Louisiana"

#US #USA #America #Louisiana #Carbon #CarbonCapture

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/13/louisiana-carbon-capture-emissions

Carbon capture cruciaal om klimaatdoelen te halen? Welnee. Het is een excuus om nog even niet je CO2 uitstoot te beperken, je slaat het immers op. NOS redacteur trapt weer eens in greenwashing praktijken Shell en ExxonMobile.

#FossilFuels #CarbonCapture

https://nos.nl/l/2486781

Carbon
Capture hubs, two earned
Funding: $1.2B to address
Legacy emissions
Pollution

#carboncapture #usfunding #emissions #pollution #cinquain #poetry

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/us-picks-the-first-two-sites-for-carbon-capture-hubs/