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The Environment
The Environment
CARBON CAPTURE
BY HOODWINKED IN THE HOTHOUSE
here has been a recent The first section outlines CO2 emissions from natural
shift towards big the types of carbon capture gas facilities, fertilizer plants,
Tmoney investments and their shortfalls, and the ethanol refineries and coal-
fired power plants (sometimes
in climate geoengineering second section outlines key referred to as “clean coal”).
that focuses on removing arguments against carbon The CO2 is then compressed
and storing carbon dioxide capture. into a liquid and transported
(CO2). Carbon capture is the to be stored in underground
geological formations.
basis of the myth that carbon Carbon Capture Takes Several CCS is usually referred to
dioxide can be sucked out Forms when addressing enhanced oil
Carbon capture and storage/
of pollution or directly from sequestration (CCS) is recovery (EOR). EOR is an
the air and stored, which is often a catch-all term for older technology used by the
oil and gas industries to inject
being touted as a magic bullet carbon capture and has been CO2 into underground oil
solution to the climate crisis. deployed in the form of and/or gas deposits in order
technology used to capture
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