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- Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-carbon-capture-renewables.html 502 comments
- Carbon capture tech a 'complete falsehood', says Fortescue Metals chairman https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/carbon-capture-tech-complete-falsehood-says-fortescue-metals-chairman-2024-02-13/ 73 comments
- Oil and gas majors demand massive public support for carbon capture https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/12/17/oil-and-gas-majors-demand-massive-public-support-for-carbon-capture 16 comments europe
- Scientists develop cheapest carbon capture system to date https://eandt.theiet.org/2023/01/24/scientists-develop-cheapest-carbon-capture-system-date 83 comments energy
- Biden administration grants Louisiana power to approve carbon capture wells https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-epa-biden-carbon-capture-fossil-fuels-39bd36693f5acfd8455e246ae81ff67a 2 comments environment
- Hidden cameras capture carbon dioxide stunning in Australia's pork industry https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-27/pork-industry-carbon-dioxide-stunning-hidden-cameras-730/102094548 55 comments worldnews
- ‘No miracles needed’: Prof Mark Jacobson on how wind, sun and water can power the world, with technologies such as carbon capture expensive wastes of time https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/23/no-miracles-needed-prof-mark-jacobson-on-how-wind-sun-and-water-can-power-the-world 4 comments environment
- NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first clear evidence for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet outside the solar system https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-detects-carbon-dioxide-in-exoplanet-atmosphere 34 comments technology
- “The challenge with our CO₂ emissions is that even if we get to zero, the world doesn’t cool back down." Two companies are on a mission in Iceland to find a technological solution to the elusive problem of capturing and storing carbon dioxide https://channels.ft.com/en/rethink/racing-against-the-clock-to-decarbonise-the-planet/ 13 comments environment
- “The challenge with our CO₂ emissions is that even if we get to zero, the world doesn’t cool back down." Two companies are on a mission in Iceland to find a technological solution to the elusive problem of capturing and storing carbon dioxide https://channels.ft.com/en/rethink/racing-against-the-clock-to-decarbonise-the-planet/ 1187 comments futurology
- An MIT Professor says the Carbon Capture provisions in recent US Climate Change legislation (IRA Bill), are a complete waste of money and merely a disguised taxpayer subsidy for the fossil fuel industry, and that Carbon Capture is a dead-end technology that should be abandoned. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/opinion/climate-inflation-reduction-act.html 1492 comments futurology
- A CO2-guzzling bacteria could help us improve carbon capture plants | Cyanobacteria may be the key to developing better CO2 capture technologies. https://interestingengineering.com/photosynthetic-bacteria-capture-co2 21 comments futurology
- In a Bid to Save Its Coal Industry, Wyoming Has Become a Test Case for Carbon Capture, but Utilities are Balking at the Pricetag. Governments and utilities have spent years and billions of dollars trying to make the model work, and “it basically didn’t.” “The economics just don’t make sense." https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29052022/coal-carbon-capture-wyoming/ 58 comments energy
- Shell’s ‘Milestone’ CCS Plant Emits More Carbon Than It Captures, Independent Analysis Finds https://www.theenergymix.com/2022/01/24/shells-milestone-ccs-plant-emits-more-carbon-than-it-captures-independent-analysis-finds/ 10 comments environment
- Locked in rock: Carbon capture strategy looks to olivine to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere https://ceramics.org/ceramic-tech-today/environment/carbon-capture-strategy-looks-to-olivine-to-remove-carbon-dioxide-from-the-atmosphere 2 comments technology
- Shell’s massive carbon capture facility in Canada emits far more than it captures, study says https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/24/shell-ccs-facility-in-canada-emits-more-than-it-captures-study-says.html 22 comments climate
- Shell’s massive carbon capture facility in Canada emits far more than it captures, study says https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/24/shell-ccs-facility-in-canada-emits-more-than-it-captures-study-says.html 112 comments environment
- Are Canada’s carbon capture plans a ‘pipe dream’? Leading climate scientists and academics are calling on the federal government to abandon a proposed tax credit that gives big polluters a break for investing in carbon capture technology. "A major new fossil fuel subsidy." https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/01/20/news/are-canadas-carbon-capture-plans-pipe-dream 6 comments energy
- Hydrogen's Hidden Emissions. Shell’s fossil [blue] hydrogen plant in Canada found to be emitting more climate-wrecking gases than it is capturing. Just 48% of the plant’s carbon emissions are captured, falling woefully short of the 90% carbon capture rate promised by industry for fossil hydrogen. https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/fossil-gas/shell-hydrogen-true-emissions/ 11 comments energy
- Why Carbon Capture Really and Truly Sucks https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/12/13/why-carbon-capture-really-and-truly-sucks 11 comments politics
- Is Joe Manchin Aware That His Favorite Climate Technology Is a Total Bust? | The conservative Democrat is insisting that Biden’s Build Back Better Act include funding for carbon capture projects. But even the fossil fuel industry admits the tech is a nonfactor in fighting global warming. https://newrepublic.com/article/164025/joe-manchin-carbon-capture-storage-total-bust 49 comments politics
- Capturing carbon is almost impossible - but nature could be the answer https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/09/16/capturing-carbon-is-almost-impossible-but-nature-could-be-the-answer 10 comments futurology
- World's Largest Direct Air Carbon Capture System Goes Online https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvz45a/worlds-largest-direct-air-carbon-capture-system-goes-online 31 comments technology
- Elon Musk pledges $ 100 million to 'best' carbon capture tech https://www.dodsee.com/2021/01/elon-musk-pledges-100-million-to-best.html 21 comments worldnews
- Shorter lifespan of faster-growing trees will add to climate crisis, study finds - Rise in carbon capture as global warming speeds growth of forests would be negated by earlier deaths, say scientists https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/08/shorter-lifespan-of-faster-growing-trees-will-add-to-climate-crisis-study-finds 8 comments worldnews
- Australian scientists have set the world record for carbon dioxide capture through a Metal Organic Frameworks nanocomposite (a structure resembling a sponge filled with tiny magnets) that uses one-third of the energy than any other reported method. https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/australian-researchers-set-record-for-carbon-dioxide-capture2 51 comments science
- EU’s ‘Clean Hydrogen Alliance’ must focus on renewables, greens insist. "Fossil fuel-based hydrogen coupled to carbon capture and storage is a distraction from this important goal and should not receive public support.” The coalition also argued against using hydrogen for heating and private cars. https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/eus-clean-hydrogen-alliance-must-focus-on-renewables-greens-insist/ 3 comments energy
- A North Dakota Utility Wants to Build the World’s Largest Carbon Capture Facility at a Power Plant https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/green-tech/clean-coal/north-dakota-coal-plant-worlds-largest-carbon-capture-facility-power-generating-facility 11 comments technews
- Australia to announce shift in climate investment away from wind and solar; prioritising carbon capture technology and hydrogen https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/feb/28/angus-taylor-to-announce-shift-in-climate-investment-away-from-wind-and-solar 36 comments worldnews
- MIT engineers develop a new way to remove carbon dioxide from air - electro-swing reactive adsorption for CO2 capture http://news.mit.edu/2019/mit-engineers-develop-new-way-remove-carbon-dioxide-air-1025 22 comments technology
- Cost plunges for capturing carbon dioxide from the air "Such technology is expensive—about $600/ton of CO2, by one recent estimate. Now, in a new study, scientists say future chemical plants could drop that cost below $100/ton" https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/cost-plunges-capturing-carbon-dioxide-air?utm_campaign=scimag&utm_source=jhubbard&utm_medium=facebook 910 comments science
- Accused of Plagiarism, Biden Campaign Admits Lifting 'Carbon Capture' Section of Climate Plan From Fossil Fuel-Backed Group https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/05/accused-plagiarism-biden-campaign-admits-lifting-carbon-capture-section-climate-plan 230 comments politics
- Dublin based start-up, Silicon Kingdom Holdings, in partnership with Arizona State University, to build carbon capture 'farms' capable of removing up to 4 million metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere per year, at a cost of less than $100 dollars per ton. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613447/startups-looking-to-suck-c02-from-the-air-are-suddenly-luring-big-bucks/ 81 comments science
- Researchers discover new catalyst for efficiently recycling waste carbon dioxide into plastic - 'Paired with carbon capture technology, this could lead to an incredibly green production mechanism for everyday plastics, meanwhile sequestering harmful greenhouse gases' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/carbon-dioxide-greenhouse-gases-plastic-polyethylene-copper-catalyst-climate-change-a8162636.html 41 comments worldnews
- California and China Have Signed an Agreement to Develop Clean Energy Technology - "designed to drive innovation and commercialization in areas such as carbon capture and storage, as well as advanced information technology that could help cut greenhouse gas emissions." http://fortune.com/2017/06/05/california-china-clean-energy-climate/ 11 comments technology
- We Must Harness the Power of Carbon Capture | TIME http://time.com/4587891/ben-van-beurden-carbon-capture/ 6 comments technology
- Carbon dioxide captured from air can be directly converted into methanol fuel http://phys.org/news/2016-01-carbon-dioxide-captured-air-methanol.html 6 comments worldnews
- Start up is using carbon honeycomb to capture carbon ( can this tech be adapted to tailpipe emissions?) http://gigaom.com/2014/07/31/this-startup-is-using-a-carbon-honeycomb-to-capture-carbon-emissions/ 11 comments science
- Cement That Captures Carbon As It Hardens http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/the-holy-grail-carboncapturing-cement.php 3 comments science
- China begins first of eight large-scale carbon capture projects - "Once it is operational, the plant will capture 800,000 tons of CO2 annually, or the equivalent of taking 80,000 cars off the highway for a year." http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/technology/china-begins-first-of-eight-large-scale-carbon-capture-projects/article/495362 43 comments technology