| Carbon Capture - following Cottys post on Oil 15:43 - Aug 2 with 1325 views | Keno |
I was intrigued by the money being spent on Carbon Capture technology
Basically isnt that what a tree does? |  |
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| Carbon Capture - following Cottys post on Oil on 16:01 - Aug 2 with 1285 views | Cotty |
It's what a tree does, but carbon capture technology doesn't (because it doesn't exist in any meaningful sense) |  | | |
| Carbon Capture - following Cottys post on Oil on 16:05 - Aug 2 with 1271 views | GeoffSentence |
| Carbon Capture - following Cottys post on Oil on 16:01 - Aug 2 by Cotty |
It's what a tree does, but carbon capture technology doesn't (because it doesn't exist in any meaningful sense) |
and all the proposals for such technology that I have seen would require electricity to run.
Even if that electricity was from entirely green sources it would be more efficiently used powering stuff without producing CO2 rather than cleaning up CO2. Until such a time as we have a surplus of the green stuff at any rate. |  |
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| Carbon Capture - following Cottys post on Oil on 16:08 - Aug 2 with 1263 views | Keno |
| Carbon Capture - following Cottys post on Oil on 16:01 - Aug 2 by Cotty |
It's what a tree does, but carbon capture technology doesn't (because it doesn't exist in any meaningful sense) |
so basically a load of people, probably friends of Tories, will get shedloads of out money to develop something thats worked for 1000's of years for free? | |
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| Carbon Capture - following Cottys post on Oil on 16:11 - Aug 2 with 1248 views | GeoffSentence |
| Carbon Capture - following Cottys post on Oil on 16:08 - Aug 2 by Keno |
so basically a load of people, probably friends of Tories, will get shedloads of out money to develop something thats worked for 1000's of years for free? |
You got it. Tata will be the first company invited to tender. | |
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| Carbon Capture - following Cottys post on Oil on 16:14 - Aug 2 with 1238 views | jayessess |
| Carbon Capture - following Cottys post on Oil on 16:08 - Aug 2 by Keno |
so basically a load of people, probably friends of Tories, will get shedloads of out money to develop something thats worked for 1000's of years for free? |
Bit of smoke and mirrors for keeping the whole petro-capitalism thing going unhindered too |  |
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| Carbon Capture - following Cottys post on Oil on 16:15 - Aug 2 with 1220 views | J2BLUE |
| Carbon Capture - following Cottys post on Oil on 16:08 - Aug 2 by Keno |
so basically a load of people, probably friends of Tories, will get shedloads of out money to develop something thats worked for 1000's of years for free? |
You might also be interested in this https://www.wwf.org.uk/what-we |  | | |
| Carbon Capture - following Cottys post on Oil on 16:29 - Aug 2 with 1157 views | lowhouseblue |
| Carbon Capture - following Cottys post on Oil on 16:01 - Aug 2 by Cotty |
It's what a tree does, but carbon capture technology doesn't (because it doesn't exist in any meaningful sense) |
https://sequestration.mit.edu/ |  |
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| Carbon Capture - following Cottys post on Oil on 17:17 - Aug 2 with 1095 views | nodge_blue |
Yes but trees arent fairing very well in all these fires. The soil captures alot and theres a very big argument to stop ploughing fields over as this releases a huge amount each year |  |
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| Carbon Capture - following Cottys post on Oil on 17:33 - Aug 2 with 1059 views | BlueBadger |
| Carbon Capture - following Cottys post on Oil on 16:08 - Aug 2 by Keno |
so basically a load of people, probably friends of Tories, will get shedloads of out money to develop something thats worked for 1000's of years for free? |
No, they'll get shedloads of money to 'develop' something which is essentially non-existent. [Post edited 2 Aug 2023 17:33]
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| Carbon Capture - following Cottys post on Oil on 18:24 - Aug 2 with 1012 views | HighgateBlue |
Sure. And we need to plant more of them, and somehow manage not to cut down so many (individual trees in town centres are totemic, but obviously in terms of its impact on the climate and habitats, it's huge rainforests that need to stop getting cut down).
But see also "I was intrigued by the money be spent on electrical lighting - basically isn't that what a tallow lamp does?"
Trees can't suck in sufficient industrially produced carbon dioxide at source, at a fast enough rate to stop most of it from disappearing. If we can develop a more efficient way to capture carbon and stick it underground in a way that slows or arrests global warming, great.
Some might say there is already a lot of carbon underground that we dig up and burn, and that we should stop digging it up. Maybe so. |  | | |
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