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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
- Labour’s carbon-capture scheme will be Starmer’s white elephant: a terrible mistake costing billions https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/11/labour-carbon-capture-climate-breakdown?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other 19 comments environment
- Labour’s carbon-capture scheme will be Starmer’s white elephant: a terrible mistake costing billions | George Monbiot https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/11/labour-carbon-capture-climate-breakdown 2 comments climate
- Carbon capture takes sponge-like form with new cost-effective method https://phys.org/news/2022-05-carbon-capture-sponge-like-cost-effective-method.amp 26 comments futurology
- Carbon capture takes sponge-like form with new cost-effective method https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/05/spongy-material-captures-carbon-dioxide-cavities 6 comments science
- Researchers have developed a low-cost, energy-efficient method for making materials that can capture carbon dioxide directly from the air. https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/electrified-charcoal-sponge-can-soak-up-co2-directly-from-the-air 39 comments futurology
- Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-carbon-capture-renewables.html 38 comments futurology
- Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-carbon-capture-renewables.html 69 comments technology
- Carbon Capture Funding Actually Incentivizes More Emissions and Higher Costs https://themessenger.com/opinion/bidens-carbon-capture-funding-incentivizes-emissions-higher-costs-climate-energy 14 comments science
- Carbon capture projects are too costly, have ‘questionable’ benefits, report finds https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-carbon-capture-projects-costly-benefits/ 68 comments energy
- Carbon capture projects are too costly, have ‘questionable’ benefits, report finds https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-carbon-capture-projects-costly-benefits/ 30 comments climate
- Researchers unveil the least costly carbon capture system to date - down to $39 per metric ton. https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/scientists-unveil-least-costly-carbon-capture-system-date 14 comments environment
- Researchers unveil the least costly carbon capture system to date - down to $39 per metric ton. https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/scientists-unveil-least-costly-carbon-capture-system-date 64 comments upliftingnews
- Researchers unveil the least costly carbon capture system to date - down to $39 per metric ton. https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/scientists-unveil-least-costly-carbon-capture-system-date 154 comments science
- Bio-Based Plastics Aim to Capture Carbon | Growing crops to make plastic could theoretically reduce reliance on fossil fuels and even pull carbon out of the atmosphere, but at an enormous environmental cost https://www.wired.com/story/bio-based-plastics-aim-to-capture-carbon-but-at-what-cost/ 5 comments science
- ‘Breakthrough’ carbon capture tech slashes costs https://www.gasworld.com/breakthrough-carbon-capture-tech-slashes-costs/2022928.article 36 comments futurology
- Cost plunges for capturing carbon dioxide from the air https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/cost-plunges-capturing-carbon-dioxide-air 3 comments environment
- 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
- World will need 'carbon sucking' technology by 2030s, scientists warn - New methods to capture and store emissions, such as planting more forests and pumping carbon underground, are currently costly and need testing. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/11/world-will-need-carbon-sucking-technology-by-2030s-scientists-warn 227 comments worldnews
- Researchers have developed a low-cost, energy-efficient method for making materials, similar to charcoal, that can capture carbon dioxide directly from the air https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/electrified-charcoal-sponge-can-soak-up-co2-directly-from-the-air 14 comments science
- Climeworks halves cost of Direct Air Carbon Capture https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/4/24170729/direct-air-capture-carbon-dioxide-removal-climate-tech-climeworks-generation-3 63 comments futurology
- UK Considers Delaying Some Carbon Capture Projects as Costs Soar https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-10/uk-considers-delaying-some-carbon-capture-projects-as-costs-soar 39 comments climate
- The oil and gas industry may be making a bad bet on blue hydrogen. They’re spending heavily on blue hydrogen projects. Will depend on capturing carbon and pumping the CO₂ underground at a reasonable cost. Pilot projects have suffered huge cost overruns, low capture rates, and methane leaks. https://qz.com/2105312/the-natural-gas-industrys-risky-bet-on-hydrogen/amp/ 31 comments energy
- Carbon Capture's Other Dirty Secret: Nowhere To Put It (Part 2 of 2). "Failure to address CCS problems of magnitude, physics of underground storage, and resultant costs is a policy failure of staggering proportions." https://cleantechnica.com/2021/09/30/carbon-captures-other-dirty-secret-nowhere-to-put-it-part-2-of-2/ 55 comments energy
- The Dream of Carbon Air Capture Edges Toward Reality - Next month, an industrial facility in Iceland will join a growing number of projects to remove CO2 from the air and put it underground. But major hurdles, including high costs, remain before this technology can be widely deployed. https://e360.yale.edu/features/the-dream-of-co2-air-capture-edges-toward-reality 3 comments climate
- The Dream of Carbon Air Capture Edges Toward Reality - Next month, an industrial facility in Iceland will join a growing number of projects to remove CO2 from the air and put it underground. But major hurdles, including high costs, remain before this technology can be widely deployed. https://e360.yale.edu/features/the-dream-of-co2-air-capture-edges-toward-reality 8 comments environment
- Impacts of Green New Deal Energy Plans on Grid Stability, Costs, Jobs, Health, and Climate in 143 Countries: a transition to 100% Wind-Water-Solar energy should reduce private and social costs substantially without the need for nuclear power, fossil fuels with carbon capture, or bioenergy. https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/s2590-3322(19)30225-8 42 comments science
- Wyoming's coal carbon capture mandate makes legislative advances. Proponents of the measure say more time is needed to attract interest from prospective third parties that might assume the costs of retrofitting coal plants. https://wyofile.com/wyomings-coal-carbon-capture-mandate-makes-legislative-advances/ 10 comments energy
- Texas oil companies pinned climate promises on carbon capture. Now, cost spikes threaten those plans https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/carbon-capture-oil-texas-19656576.php 10 comments climate
- 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
- Waste carbon from farms, sewage and other sources can be processed into high-grade bio-based fuels more easily with a new flow cell. It removes carbon from wastewater, allowing the clean water to be reused. The system generates hydrogen, a valuable fuel that can be captured, reducing the costs. https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/path-renewable-fuel-just-got-easier 4 comments science
- Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find - By 2050, most countries could meet energy needs with wind, solar, geothermal, and hydropower, cutting costs, improving air quality, and slowing climate change—at a fraction of the cost of carbon capture technologies. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c10686 84 comments science
- New class of organic-inorganic hybrid membranes demonstrates CO2 permeance (6180 Gas Permeation Units) that is six times the target presented as the threshold for affordable membrane-based carbon capture. This technology can help curb emissions by lowering the energy penalty and cost of CO2 capture. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/ee/c9ee01238a#!divabstract 5 comments science
- Engineers have built a cost-effective artificial leaf that can capture carbon dioxide at rates 100 times better than current systems. It captures carbon dioxide from sources, like air and flue gas produced by coal-fired power plants, and releases it for use as fuel and other materials. https://today.uic.edu/stackable-artificial-leaf-uses-less-power-than-lightbulb-to-capture-100-times-more-carbon-than-other-systems 104 comments futurology
- Engineers have built a cost-effective artificial leaf that can capture carbon dioxide at rates 100 times better than current systems. It captures carbon dioxide from sources, like air and flue gas produced by coal-fired power plants, and releases it for use as fuel and other materials. https://today.uic.edu/stackable-artificial-leaf-uses-less-power-than-lightbulb-to-capture-100-times-more-carbon-than-other-systems 1311 comments science
- Sustainable material for carbon dioxide capture. A new bio-based foam, infused with CO2-adsorbing ‘zeolites’ is sustainable, has a high capture rate, and has low operating costs. https://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/chem/news/pages/carbon-dioxide-capture.aspx 6 comments science
- Wyoming's coal mandate continues to cost electric customers. Black Hills Energy is the second utility in the state to impose a 'carbon capture compliance' surcharge in an effort to keep coal plants from shuttering. https://wyofile.com/wyomings-coal-mandate-continues-to-cost-electric-customers/ 5 comments energy
- Researchers have developed a small, low-cost, battery-like device made in part from sustainable materials, that can selectively capture carbon dioxide gas while it charges. Then, when it discharges, the CO2 can be released in a controlled way and collected to be reused or disposed of responsibly https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/low-cost-battery-like-device-absorbs-co2-emissions-while-it-charges 32 comments science
- Researchers have found flaws in a decade's worth of analysis about carbon capture and storage costs and efficiency. The fuel costs for CCS-equipped coal plants would be about four times more than previously thought, making it more expensive than wind and on par with solar. http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/23339-carbon-capture-analyst-coal-should-stay-in-the-ground 12 comments science
- Graphene filter makes carbon capture more efficient and cheaper: " 'this technology will drop the cost of carbon capture close to $30 per ton of carbon dioxide, in contrast to commercial processes where the cost is two-to-four time higher' " https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-02/epfd-gfm022521.php 22 comments science