“Carbon capture and storage (CCS), I wanted to talk about it not as a technological phenomenon but a rhetorical one. A tactically deployed promise that is never meant to come true.
Failure as a feature, not a bug.
If left unchecked, corporate capture — as demonstrated by the volume of fossil fuel lobbyists roaming the corridors and rooms of COP29 — will continue to impede progress towards climate action.
The fossil fuel industry- which has been raking in ultra-profits thanks to bloody conflicts and cost-of-living crises – has managed to support this broad greenwashing ecosystem largely using public funds.
There is no other climate technology quite like this – nothing that has sustained such high levels of public funding, credulous trust among professionals and deep presence in climate scenarios, paired with such a persistent failure rate.”
Take a deep dive into CCS and you’ll quickly discover that the energy/chemical/engineering aspects of this process as it stands now are just awful.
Really interesting article that put numbers on what can be observed 🤓 however we have to remember that nature does demonstrate CCS at scale, yet not the technological quick fix that politicians, engineers and petrochemical industry want.
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“Carbon capture and storage (CCS), I wanted to talk about it not as a technological phenomenon but a rhetorical one. A tactically deployed promise that is never meant to come true.
Failure as a feature, not a bug.
If left unchecked, corporate capture — as demonstrated by the volume of fossil fuel lobbyists roaming the corridors and rooms of COP29 — will continue to impede progress towards climate action.
The fossil fuel industry- which has been raking in ultra-profits thanks to bloody conflicts and cost-of-living crises – has managed to support this broad greenwashing ecosystem largely using public funds.
There is no other climate technology quite like this – nothing that has sustained such high levels of public funding, credulous trust among professionals and deep presence in climate scenarios, paired with such a persistent failure rate.”
Take a deep dive into CCS and you’ll quickly discover that the energy/chemical/engineering aspects of this process as it stands now are just awful.
Really interesting article that put numbers on what can be observed 🤓 however we have to remember that nature does demonstrate CCS at scale, yet not the technological quick fix that politicians, engineers and petrochemical industry want.
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