Blog Reader Roger sends....
"I watched the 60 minutes report on CO2 capture
in Iceland and it looked interesting until you look at it
closely. Using their own numbers the total CO2 produced
world wide is 40 billion tons per year. This hot shit
carbon removal plant removes 3 million tons/year and pumps
it underground, they are working on a plant 10 times bigger
which is still meaningless. They also claim that they
aren't producing any CO2 to run the plant since its
electricity comes from geothermal heat. What is totally
ignored is that this electricity could be sent elsewhere
instead of running this useless feelgood project. The idea
here is that if we spend huge amounts of money we can
somehow make a difference so they only compare it to
handpicked reductions in the US and Western countries. The
amount of CO2 captured is laughable when looking at the
whole picture.
Meanwhile China is adding 2 coal plants a week
and India and other countries are doing the same. Its sad
that CBS puts this deceiving garbage out as a way to
continue to mislead all the "green energy" people in their
audience."
60 MINUTES OVERTIME SHOW <<<
There's been a stampede of investment into direct air capture, but
some advocates worry the carbon capture process may not be scaled up
fast enough to make an impact.
Direct air capture is a new
technology that vacuums carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. The CO2 is
trapped by a special filter inside a giant collector – each the size of
a shipping container. In Iceland, home to the world's first commercial
direct air capture plant, CO2 is then sent to be buried deep underground
in porous volcanic rock, where it hardens to stone in less than two
years.
Scientists estimate carbon capture needs to remove 10
billion tons of carbon dioxide annually, at the same time as there are
drastic cuts in fossil fuels. ORCA, which CBS news correspondent Bill
Whitaker visited in Iceland, can take out the emissions of about 800
cars, or 4,000 tons of CO2. Scaling direct air capture is a gargantuan
challenge.
CHINA COAL PLANTS<<<
China permitted more coal power plants last year than any time in the last seven years, according to a new report released this week. It's the equivalent of about two new coal power plants per week. The report by energy data organizations Global Energy Monitor and the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air finds the country quadrupled the amount of new coal power approvals in 2022 compared to 2021.
