Wind and solar smashed records in the EU this year
VergeAPR 2022
The deployment of "carbon, capture, utilization, and storage" technologies often catches a bad rep for the cost of investment. Critics are misunderstanding the benefits as well as the potential for a sure-fire low-carbon solution. Even with the naysayers, these technologies are gaining momentum, and in 2020 alone, governments put up more than $4.5M in support. The world will come to understand that "net zero" emissions cannot be achieved without this method. This is vital for addressing climate change.
Carbon capture is not new, it began in the 1970s and has a long history of failure. The technology behind CCUS has been rebranded by oil companies as a "climate-friendly" practice and used to produce more oil and gas, increasing emissions. Global carbon capture projects have failed one after another with the most notorious failure being the 2015 Aliso Canyon gas leak in California. These efforts are exorbitantly expensive and dangerous, and the long-term life of a capture project is questionable, at best.