Carbon Capture Technologies

[Pat Mustard]

    At the state in which thing are in the present moment, this is mainly understood as a very promising technology for the future at best and a technique of greenwashing that is being used by big oil companies at worst.

At it's very best it's greenwashing, more likely it's a criminal scam. Thunderfoot did a video on CCS a few months ago demonstrating that it would never break even on an energy basis, i.e. that you would always expend more energy capturing the carbon than was used to create it in the first place. For such a mature process, the gas industry has been using it since at least the seventies, it has never once come close to what is constantly been promised that it can do.

Much better to invest the money in lower emission energy generation instead, ie nuclear and renewables (not burning wood).