CO2 trap from the air for huge money. He was not in action, but the government is considering

The British government should commit to a project to use DACCS devices to directly capture and store CO2 from the air, according to independent research organization Energy System Catapult (ESC). The project would cost Great Britain 30 billion. The ESC warns that without carbon capture there is a risk of failure in achieving climate goals. However, the use of DACCS remains untested.

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Independent research and technology organization Energy System Catapult (ESC), which works to accelerate innovation in Net Zero energy, has recommended that the UK government commit to a project to capture CO₂ from the air.

According to the ESC report, individual Direct Air Capture with Carbon Storage (DACCS) facilities would be located along the East Coast, separating the greenhouse gas from the air and pumping it into underground storage facilities. With the help of these devices, Great Britain could thus meet the goal of “net zero” by 2050. 48 million tons of CO must be removed from the air₂ annually.

“Carbon capture in various forms is a critical part of the low-cost energy transition,” ESC says, adding that “without it at scale, we risk not meeting our net zero requirement.”

The project would cost Britain 30 billion pounds, which translates to more than 877 billion Czech crowns.

Direct air capture with carbon storage (DACCS) is a technology that uses chemical processes to capture and separate carbon dioxide (CO₂) directly from the surrounding air. WHAT₂ it is then separated from the chemicals and captured so that it can be pumped into geological reservoirs or used to make durable products. The chemicals are then reused to capture more CO₂.

In addition, the ESC admits that the DACCS device “remains untested on a large scale”. This raises the question of whether the costs for the acquisition and subsequent operation of the equipment are estimated correctly.

Another problem with the DACCS device highlighted by the journal The Telegraph, is that “they would have to be powered by wind, nuclear or solar power in order not to produce as much CO₂, how much they save”. Green plants would thus work to power DACCS facilities only to achieve climate goals.

Recent studies show that the current DACCS technology is extremely inefficient and only sequesters one ton of CO₂ 2,500 kilowatt hours are required. To extract 48 million tons of CO₂ therefore, 14 gigawatt power plants would be needed, which is more than four times the power of the Hinkley Point C power plant in Somerset, UK, the server points out The Daily Skeptic

One of the first industrial carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems in the world was tested by Britain back in 2011. In CCS, carbon dioxide was removed from power plant emissions and then injected into microscopic pores of geological reservoirs underground. Electricity producer ScottishPower and its consortium partners National Grid and Shell UK were to build a system that would decarbonise a sixth of the Longannet power station’s output. However, the project failed and was postponed indefinitely, the newspaper reported New Scientist.

The Daily Skeptic took a closer look at Energy System Catapult itself. ECS is part of an umbrella group of government-backed private companies called the Catapult Network, which is itself part of Innovate UK, which in turn is part of UK Research and Innovation – the successor public funding body to the former research councils. According to the website, the ESC and its sister organizations raise millions of pounds from public sources, which are complemented by opaque philanthropic funding, enabling the company to “support central and decentralized governments with evidence, insights and innovation that drives Net Zero action”. Although the organization is apparently independent, it is still subordinated to political agendas.

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