2024-03-10
The CCC (the Government's Climate Change Committee) has a problem.
It is legally obliged to solve an intractable issue.
Nuclear takes too long to implement, "renewables" are too intermittent, and everything else creates CO2 which cannot be released. So what to do with it?
Carbon capture is a safe political solution in so far as it has always been assumed that new technologies will be invented to solve the problem of sequestration. By extending this assumption, nobody need look too closely at the implications, so "job done" for today.
However, time waits for neither man nor novel technologies, so the CCC has had to do a bit more assumption-wangling to make it look like it has some plausible solution that could solve this tricky situation.
Essentially, by compressing this terrible CO2 to a sufficient degree, it can be pumped underground into storage sinks where it will (hopefully) be sequestered in placid perpetuity without possibility of mischievously leaking up and out over time to where it didn't oughta be. Good job, problem solved!
Of course it would be necessary to burn more fossil fuels - or trees that could have turned CO2 into oxygen - to power the compression process, but that should be negligible in the scale of things?
And given the terrible emissions of CO2-laden hot air from the world's Great and Good should we contemplate allowing that CO2 to merely disperse safely and gradually as it is created, surely the carbon sequestration idea is a no-brainer?
The Daily Sceptic investigates.
