Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technology represents the fossil fuel industry’s last stand. Hawking expensive, speculative technology to suck CO2 out of the air and store it underground — rather than transitioning away from fossil fuels — enables immensely profitable oil companies to continue business as usual while presenting themselves as part of the solution to the climate crisis.
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Scam 101.
CCS can’t possibly work because the energy requirements of capturing carbon are always greater than that gained from burning them in the first place.
Thermodynamics is a harsh mistress.
