Yves-François Blanchet: I think people should be kept very informed about climate change, because we are in a very strange denial situation about climate change, which still exists and is very expensive. And [to Carney & Poilievre] I'm sorry to crash your party guys, but you are telling fairy tales. Clean oil and gas is a fairy tale. Large scale carbon sequestration (...) is a fairy tale. It does not exist.
STAX Engineering has teamed up with Seabound to demo a fully integrated emissions and #carboncapture solution at the Port of Long Beach in California.
A few highlights:
- Carbon Capture & Storage projects have been around for 50 years already
- so far, CCS captured just 0.001% of global emissions
- CCS does not impact the ~80% emissions from downstream use
- costs up to 10x more than reducing emissions with wind & solar
Carbon capture and storage is not a real climate solution:
Dead trees keep surprisingly large amounts of carbon out of atmosphere
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-dead-trees-large-amounts-carbon.html
Ocean dumping—or a climate solution? A growing industry bets on the ocean to capture carbon
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-ocean-dumping-climate-solution-industry.html
Nuada, a Northern Irish firm specialising in #carboncapture technology, has secured €2.5 million in funding from the European Union's EIC Accelerator programme.
Losing forest carbon stocks could put climate goals out of reach, scientists warn
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-forest-carbon-stocks-climate-goals.html
With affordable materials, researchers pull carbon directly from the air using changes in humidity
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-04-materials-carbon-air-humidity.html
New adsorbent captures CO₂ from air and withstands high temperatures
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-03-adsorbent-captures-air-high-temperatures.html
TotalEnergies, Equinor, and Shell have launched the second phase of the Northern Lights #carboncapture and storage (CCS) project, which will increase the project's CO2 transport and storage capacity from 1.5 million tonnes to over 5 million tonnes annually, commencing in 2028.
Aviation fuel from CO2-> 95% lower heat-trapping gas emissions.
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/lydian-carbon-neutral-jet-fuel-north-carolina/
“[Some] efficiency comes by operating only when renewable power [is cheap]. By running at ideal times, the process avoids extreme energy expenses typical to power-to-liquid operations. What's more, the strategic electricity use doesn't strain the grid and avoids competition for valuable electricity”
Having long advocated for “seasonal" energy use, this is marvelous to see.
A fossil fuel project in Teesside has landed a £10bn subsidy for a fairytale technology. But the government’s carbon sums don’t add up. - https://goodlawproject.org/labour-is-chucking-cash-at-a-carbon-capture-con-so-were-taking-action/ staggering waste of money; it will never work on the scale required #carboncapture
Beyond the burn: Harvesting dead wood to reduce wildfires and store carbon
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-harvesting-dead-wood-wildfires-carbon.html
New England's salt marshes store 10 million cars' worth of carbon—and add another 15,000 cars' worth every year
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-england-salt-marshes-million-cars.html
Transforming US agriculture for carbon removal with enhanced weathering
"Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find"
#CarbonCapture #Emissions #Climate #ClimateChange #Renewables #Energy
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-carbon-capture-renewables.html
LED standards
Eliminating red light
Sunlight emitted
#haiku #Health #Education #NIR #Infrared #LightBulb #2028 #CarbonCapture #Cancer #warning #Monday #video https://youtu.be/0m1Qekrfs7w?si=FQPK5KRXBChV-ZHJ
Seaweed farms show potential for carbon storage that gets better with age
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-seaweed-farms-potential-carbon-storage.html