http://www.energypost.eu/carbon-capture-storage-comeback-must-focus-industrial-emissions/ Quoting the article: "Dr. Graeme Sweeney, chairman of the EU Zero Emissions Platform for Carbon Capture and Storage (ZEP), who spoke with Bellona during the Paris climate talks in December, frankly admitted, “we told the wrong story” about CCS being primarily useful for abating coal emissions.“Other alternatives exist for clean power, like renewables. We [in the CCS community] put too much emphasis on energy,” Sweeney said. “So, we have to start over and talk about industrial applications.”"Translation - We misspoke about CCS's potential to abate emissions from power generation. That's actually now someone else's problem. Good luck.Does this mean that the CCS community will give back all those $B of federal money spent with the promise of abating CO2 from the energy sector and sold as a central policy plank (IPCC, etc) to reduce global emissions? Is it time yet to finally: i) admit that CCS, making concentrated CO2 and putting in the ground, has and will fail to deliver desperately needed, cost effective CO2 mitigation for fossil energy, ii) recognize that as in the case of mitigating all other pollutant gases, SOx, NOx, etc, the costly and risky concentration and storage of CO2 in molecular form is unnecessary, and 3) divert a significant fraction of CCS's R&D bankroll into new ideas and approaches, rather than insisting that all CCS needs is more $Bs (and a few miracles)? BECCSers take heed: the last time I checked biomass energy was in the energy sector, so if CCS isn't the answer for coal and NG, why should anyone assume it's the answer for BE and negative emissions?Greghttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Greg_Rau
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