“Carbon offset markets are widely discredited. Their only benefit lies in enriching the middlemen charged with selling the lie.”
Source: ‘Landmark’ Carbon Capture Credit Purchase by NextGen Denounced as Total ‘Scam’
Tag: carbon capture
Carbon capture is not a solution to net zero emissions plans, report says
The technology, put forward as part of the UK’s net zero strategy, could extend the life of fossil fuel infrastructure
These machines scrub greenhouse gases from the air – an inventor of direct air capture technology shows how it works
Klaus Lackner is finding new ways to cut the technology’s high costs and energy demand, and he’s about to launch the first ‘mechanical tree.’
Why Big Oil’s Pivot to Carbon Capture and Storage—While It Keeps on Drilling—Isn’t a Climate Solution
After decades of sowing doubt about climate change and its causes, the fossil fuel industry is now shifting to a new strategy: presenting itself as the source of solutions. This repositioning includes rebranding itself as a “carbon management industry.”
American democracy?
At this stage, Democrats have offered Joe Manchin a basket full of polluter-friendly subsidies to prop up essentially non-existent carbon capture power technology, a watered-down clean power plan barely better than the status quo, or a meaningless carbon tax that mostly exists as a totem for an industry that pretends to care about the planetary damage it has caused.
The World’s Largest Direct Air Capture Plant Is Now Pulling CO2 From the Air in Iceland
The captured carbon is liquefied then pumped underground into basalt caverns, where over the course of about two years, it turns to stone.
Source: The World’s Largest Direct Air Capture Plant Is Now Pulling CO2 From the Air in Iceland
Carbon dioxide capture and use could become big business —
Capturing carbon dioxide and turning it into commercial products, such as fuels or construction materials, could become a new global industry, according to a new study.
Source: Carbon dioxide capture and use could become big business — ScienceDaily
1848+: The End(s) of History 