{"id":256272,"date":"2023-05-06T18:52:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T16:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=256272"},"modified":"2023-05-06T18:52:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T16:52:51","slug":"carbon-capture-a-net-emitter-of-co2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=256272","title":{"rendered":"Carbon capture: a net emitter of CO2 ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Tallbloke’s Talkshop<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 3, 2023 by\u00a0oldbrew<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CO2 is not pollution<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A BBC article headline asked: \u2018Carbon capture: What is it and how does it fight climate change?\u2019 But a report last year found a Shell Oil project output more CO2 than it captured<\/a>. The amount of CO2 such sites can capture is negligible anyway, and they\u2019re relying on \u2018hopium\u2019 to bring the high costs down. Given the lack of evidence of success of CCS installations, why is the BBC \u2013 or anyone \u2013 promoting it as a climate benefit?<\/em>
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The UK government has announced that the first sites in the UK to capture greenhouse gases will be in Teesside, says BBC News<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The carbon capture plants are designed to prevent carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial processes and power stations being released into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The announcement was part of the government\u2019s new Net Zero Strategy and aims to move the UK closer to meeting its legally-binding carbon commitments.
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Why is carbon capture needed?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carbon capture power plants are part of the government\u2019s commitment to remove carbon from UK electricity production by 2035.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It hopes to build at least one by the mid 2020s, although that deadline now looks improbable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There has been a big expansion in renewable energy in the last decade \u2013 in particular the use of offshore wind \u2013 but the unresolved question is how to keep the lights on when the wind isn\u2019t blowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carbon capture power stations are seen as part of the solution, along with the increased use of nuclear energy, and other rapidly-evolving technologies such as hydrogen.
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How much CO2 will these plants remove?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2021, the UK emitted 425 million tonnes of CO2. That\u2019s fallen by almost 50% since 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The amount being captured at these proposed power stations is very small by comparison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of the proposed carbon capture plants claims to capture more than two million tonnes a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government has set a target to capture between 20 and 30 million tonnes of CO2 a year by 2030. That could involve other industrial processes as well as power generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How much will carbon capture cost?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The technology has been around for decades. It\u2019s mainly been used in industries where captured CO2 can be reused, for example to force out oil and gas from underground reserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are no such plans to use the CO2 from the new proposed power stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cost of a new gas power station, providing electricity for nearly a million homes, is around \u00a3350m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catherine Raw of energy company SSE told the BBC that building a similar sized gas power station with carbon capture would roughly double the cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hope is that the price might fall over time. The cost of renewable energy for example has plummeted in the last decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are those who see carbon capture as too expensive and believe the money would be better spent on renewables and power storage (like batteries).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese power stations look like another excuse for the government to show preference to their friends in the oil and gas industry, making energy more expensive to everyone else\u2019s disadvantage,\u201d says Dr Doug Parr of campaign group Greenpeace UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do other countries have carbon capture?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In September 2022 there were just 30 carbon capture facilities in the world, according to a report from the Global CCS Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost all of these are attached to industrial plants carrying out activities such as natural gas processing or fertiliser production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once built, it is hoped other industries would use the UK power station\u2019s pipeline to store CO2 under the North Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full article here<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A BBC article headline asked: \u2018Carbon capture: What is it and how does it fight climate change?\u2019 But a report last year found a Shell Oil project\u00a0output more CO2 than it captured. The amount of CO2 such sites can capture is negligible anyway, and they\u2019re relying on \u2018hopium\u2019 to bring the high costs down. Given the lack of evidence of success of CCS installations, why is the BBC \u2013 or anyone \u2013 promoting it as a climate benefit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":256277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818076,691818088,691819365],"class_list":{"0":"post-256272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-co2","9":"tag-greenhouse-gases","10":"tag-uk-electricity","12":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/00562fb485-c523-4d6f-b6a5-6798810a2bc5.webp?fit=1670%2C1238&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-14Fq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":345701,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=345701","url_meta":{"origin":256272,"position":0},"title":"Shoving It Where the Sun Don\u2019t\u00a0Shine","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"07\/10\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"In Denierland, I bemoaned the way policy makers evaluate success when it comes to climate. 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