Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Carbon capture versus renewable energies? Proponents of contradicting green visions for the future of the UK argue over Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s grand policy in the field of renewable energy.
Carbon sequestration is critical to meeting climate goals, scientists tell Green critics
Proponents insist that storage technology is not a costly bug, but rather the best way for the UK to cut heavy industry emissions
Robin McKie
Sun 17 Jan 2021 04:36 AEDT
Engineers and geologists have harshly criticized green groups who last week claimed that carbon capture and storage systems – to reduce fossil fuel emissions – are costly mistakes.
The scientists insisted that such systems are important weapons in the fight against global warming, warning that it would be almost impossible to keep net emissions below zero by 2050 if ways to capture carbon dioxide were not put in place and underground save.
“Carbon capture and storage will be the only effective way in the short term to prevent our steel, cement and many other processes from continuing to emit emissions into the atmosphere,” said Professor Stuart Haszeldine of the University of Edinburgh.
“If we want to hope to keep the global temperature [increases] At temperatures below 2 ° C, we urgently need to develop ways to capture and store carbon dioxide. “
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But activists from Global Witness and Friends of the Earth Scotland said last week that trust in CCS is not a reliable way to decarbonise the energy system, and last Monday released a paper from the Tyndall Manchester Climate Change Research Center that CCS proved it has a “history of promising and underserving”.
Both groups claimed that despite the investment, CCS would not make “a significant contribution to the 2030 climate targets” and instead called for the construction of renewable energy plants to be given priority.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/16/carbon-capture-vital-meeting-climate-goals-scientists-cut-emissions
It’s all macabre entertaining once you’ve overcome the sadness of seeing such an amazing waste of all the taxpayer’s money.
In my opinion, there is no chance that either camp will achieve anything useful.
At 50 degrees north the UK will never build enough renewable energy to replace fossil fuels. Even if I’m wrong, at best the UK would get what it already has – the ability to produce electricity.
Carbon Capture – What Can You Say? If you fill all the empty gas wells in the North Sea with CO2, you will receive a cash reward for people who thought their exhausted fossil fuel claims were worthless – a kind of lottery win for billionaires, where ordinary taxpayers pay the tickets.
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