CCS "unlikely to succeed"
Jun 19, 2012
Bishop Hill in Climate: Parliament, Climate: WG3, Energy: CCS

From the Daily Telegraph (Australia)

A PROPOSED method of cutting harmful carbon emissions in the atmosphere by storing them underground risks causing earthquakes and is unlikely to succeed, a US study said.

The warning came in a Perspective article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, just days after another independent US study warned that carbon capture and storage (CCS) risked causing earthquakes.

CCS is currently considered a "viable strategy" by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for pollution control from coal-based electrical power generation and other industrial sources of carbon dioxide, said the PNAS study.

If I recall correctly, DECC's plans for our future energy needs only consider fossil fuels if they have carbon capture in place.

I wonder what they are going to do now?

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