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Is Carbon Capture and Storage more expensive than we thought?
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this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2024
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Who is "we"? I've never ever ever seen a carbon capture and storage demonstration that was even within an order of magnitude of the cost of simply reducing emissions, or planting trees.
CCS is a pipe dream being pushed by fossil fuel companies to justify inaction.
We need to be acting as if it will never work. Keep funding research, because it could be a way to fast track climate recovery, but on all other roads assume it does absolutely nothing.