Carbon Capture Tech Hype Is Fizzling Out, IEA Says
Carbon Capture Tech Hype Is Fizzling Out, IEA Says
This update on the IEA's roadmap outlines how lowering emissions and investing in renewables will help the world reach net-zero targets.
Lol it was always a lie, just like "clean coal technology."
The capitalists will always use the crises they cause to part you with more of your capital. They're just the evolution of ye olde traveling snake oil salesman that used their grift to become the world's owners.
And because so many poor, deluded peasants truly, darkly, hilariously believe capitalism can solve the problems capitalism propagates, we're going to be pumping carbon shit into the air until the capitalists have no more surface peasants left alive to bark orders at from their temperature controlled bunker compounds.
And even then, the owners will somehow still blame the corpses for not implementing their orders correctly or something.
42Carbon capture can make sense.
Not sure how you can spin that as some sort of capitalist shenanigans when in reality, a lot of universities and start ups created stuff with very little funding.
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It’s always seemed nonsensical to me. Now I studied the computer stuff, not physics but… it seems like you’d need a gigafuckton (SI unit right there) of energy to get the CO2 levels down in an appreciable way when the levels were talking about here are in the hundreds of parts per million.. just seems like it’d be incredibly inefficient at best
29It's even simpler to see how stupid it is. It costs more energy to capture the carbon and store it than is gained by burning it in the first place. It's literally more energy efficient to just not burn it at all.
17If it weren't for the fact, that we put so much in the atmosphere already that it effects the climate, sure, it absolutely is. But since we're already way past that point of no return, there is no alternative in doing carbon capture with renewables in areas where no one would use the available energy anyway.
It's expensive as fuck, but countless studies show, even if we just stop carbon emissions all together, it wouldn't change much about the upcoming costs climate change brings, which will be absolutely biblical. Starting with more extreme weather and resulting insurance claims, over migration issues, food shortages and to a general collaps of the markets.
Putting up carbon capture technology is more important than ever, not because we can just keep in going but because we have to go back and get that stuff out the air below 300 ppm.
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I'm with you. Also, it seems like it would be much more efficient to do carbon capture at the source, where the fuel is being used, like a power plant, where the concentrations are relatively high, compared to atmospheric capture where CO2 is less than 0.1%.
10Yeah. Carbon capture of flue gas would be much more efficient.. but we're also not really doing that so..
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We would need clean energy production to cover demand and then have the capacity to produce excess energy for it to ever be anything to consider at all, we are nowhere close to that.
7We'll actually HAVE to do it at one point but yeah, it will take a good 30-50% of the world's energy budget for decades to centuries to do so.
However, until we're on 100% nuclear / renewable, you're just generating 100 carbon for every 30 you capture. That's where the stupidity lies. Even if you use renewable energy to power your capture plant, it still be more efficient to just route that energy directly into the grid where it would then avoid someone else having to generate the carbon to use the energy.
5SI unit right there
Wonder what my physics teacher will say in the next exam when I calculate with it. What's the abreviation?
3Hmmm… Gfucks I suppose. Gotta capitalise the G!
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Problem is not energy even, it's that they are not transforming CO2, meaning that is still there, simply temporarily stored. It is not a solution. It can be part of a solution. But currently there are better and cheaper overall solutions
2I mean… the earth had it stored temporarily in fossil fuel deposits and we unpacked it into the atmosphere. It isn’t a crazy idea to see if we can pack it back up and put it back in the earth. There is not a solution where the carbon goes away, it’s been here in one form or another since the earth formed.
The energy cost problem was always the problem. Entropy wins.
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I drank the carbon capture kool-aid for a time early on. It sounded too good to be true. Unfortunately it was.
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