It’s time to accept carbon capture has failed – here’s what we should do instead

Tom Baxter

It’s time to accept carbon capture has failed – here’s what we should do instead

Tom Baxter

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Abstract

For years, optimists have talked up carbon capture and storage (CCS) as an essential part of taking emissions out of electricity generation. Yes, build wind and solar farms, they have said, but they can’t be relied on to produce enough power all the time. So we’ll still need our fleet of fossil-fuel-burning power stations; we just need to stop them pumping carbon dioxide (CO₂) into the atmosphere.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	The Conversation
Publisher	The Conversation UK
Publication status	Published - 23 Aug 2017

Keywords

Electricity
Energy efficiency
Carbon capture and storage
Scotland
Wind farms
Offshore wind
North Sea
CCS
Solar farms
gas-fired power

UN SDGs

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It’s time to accept carbon capture has failed – here’s what we should do instead

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