CCS Redux: Global Spend On Carbon Capture Since 1970 Would Have Avoided More CO2 If Spent on Wind & Solar

Carbon capture and sequestration in all of its various ineffective, inefficient and expensive forms is having another run up the hype cycle. Nothing has really changed. The problems still exist. The alternatives are still better. The potential for use is still minuscule. And so, the CCS Redux series, republishing old CCS articles with minor edits. Recently [in 2019], a firm called Carbon Engineering received $68 million in investment from a trio of fossil fuel majors for its air carbon capture solution. This triggered a five-part CleanTechnica series on Carbon Engineering, its approach, and why it is not a serious answer to global warming. The process of researching the series and discussions around it raised the question of what the total global investment in carbon capture and sequestration has gained us. The answer is grim, but there’s a great news story that emerges from the sooty ashes of carbon capture. read the whole story here; https://cleantechnica.com/2024/02/09/ccs-redux-global-spend-on-carbon-capture-since-1970-would-have-avoided-more-co2-if-spent-on-wind-solar/

Electricity storage has a new low cost contender!

Hot rocks or actually blocks of graphite, with liquid tin as the transfer fluid, and the heat is converted into electricity with newly developed TVP's. thermal and photovoltaic receivers! https://open.substack.com/pub/davidroberts/p/another-hot-rocks-company-gets-in?r=50mik&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email