Update to Biggest Carbon Capture Project

If you missed Biggest Carbon Capture Project 5/11/24, click on “read full story” . If you already read it, go right on to the update portion.

This is from a Guest Post by Viv Forbes of Master Resource, as published by Thomas Shepstone’s Energy Security and Freedom, 5/17/24

Read the whole thing, but I’ll just post a couple excerpts from Is Carbon Capture Just another Part of the Climate Con?

This is a great article, and in addition to a thorough look at CCU, it addresses something I as a non-professional was already suspecting - that CO2, a gas, would quite likely end up escaping back into the atmosphere, thus rendering all this expensive effort a complete waste of time, money, and resources.

“Carbon-capture-and-underground-storage “(CCUS)” tops the list of silly schemes “to reduce man-made global warming”. The idea is to capture exhaust gases from power stations or cement plants, separate the CO2 from the other gases, compress it, pump it to the chosen burial site and force it underground into permeable rock formations. Then, hope it never escapes.”

“…They have chosen the Precipice Sandstone for their carbon cemetery. However, the chances of keeping CO2 gas confined in this porous sandstone are remote. This formation has a very large area of outcrop to the surface and gas will escape somewhere, so why bother forcing it into a jail with no roof?”

“…Engineers with buckets of easy money may base a whole career on Carbon Capture and Underground Storage. But only stupid green zealots would support the sacrifice of billions of investment dollars and scads of energy to bury this harmless, invisible, life-supporting gas in the hope of appeasing the high priests of global warming.”

Well put. And I highly recommend you read the whole article. Here’s the link again.