{"id":375760,"date":"2025-04-19T10:51:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T08:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=375760"},"modified":"2025-04-19T10:51:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T08:51:55","slug":"project-to-suck-money-out-of-taxpayers-begins-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=375760","title":{"rendered":"Project To Suck Money Out of Taxpayers Begins In\u00a0UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

h\/t Philip Bratby<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why are UK taxpayers forced to pay for this pointless nonsense, when the rest of the world does not give a toss?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A ground-breaking project to suck carbon out of the sea has started operating on England\u2019s south coast.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The small pilot scheme, known as SeaCURE, is funded by the UK government as part of its search for technologies that fight climate change.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s broad consensus amongst climate scientists that the overwhelming priority is to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the chief cause of global warming.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But many scientists also believe that part of the solution will have to involve capturing some of the gases that have already been released.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project is trying to find whether removing carbon from the water might be a cost effective way of reducing the amount of the climate warming gas CO2 in the atmosphere.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SeaCURE processes the seawater to remove the carbon before pumping it back out to sea where it absorbs more CO2.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report says the project will cost \u00a33 million and will capture a miniscule 100 tonnes of CO2 a year. It also needs a lot of energy to pump the water and gases around. The process also involves adding first acids to help release the CO2, and then alkali to counteract the acid!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u00a33 million is of course just to prove whether the process works or not- an ongoing annual operation would cost many times more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the UK emits about 800 million tonnes of CO2, including imported ones, 100 tonnes is neither here or there. Nor is there any prospect that such a project could be scaled up to cope with the billions of tonnes emitted worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is one of fifteen similar projects, all of which will be paid for out of our taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No doubt the scientists playing around with our taxes will enjoy themselves immensely, but surely there is a better use of this money?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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