{"id":1677,"date":"2022-03-16T14:08:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2022-06-11T16:04:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T16:04:40","slug":"large-scale-carbon-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/large-scale-carbon-capture\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Scale Carbon Capture"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Every second of the day, an extensive amount of greenhouse gases (mostly carbon dioxide) are emitted into the atmosphere by <a href=\"https:\/\/energyeducation.ca\/encyclopedia\/Power_plant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\">power plants<\/a>, heavy industries, cars and other manmade sources. To tackle the provoked global climate change and stay under the 1.5\u00baC warming advised by the IPCC <span id='easy-footnote-1-1677' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/large-scale-carbon-capture\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-1677' title='Summary for Policymakers. In: An IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5\u00b0C. &lt;em&gt;Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change&lt;\/em&gt;, 2018; 7-10.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>\u00a0, there need to be effective solutions to reverse the impact of human induced emissions. In fact, this innovative technology exists\u2014it is called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.c2es.org\/content\/carbon-capture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\">carbon capture<\/a>\u201d. While still under development, carbon capture is a very promising large-scale carbon initiative and has many variants and applications.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>Types of Carbon Capture<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is the process of capturing carbon from point sources, such as fossil fuel power plants or heavy industries&#8217; factories, and sequestrating it under a rock formation. In 2019, the Global CCS Institute reported that there were 51 large-scale CCS facilities around the world, of which 19 are currently operating (the rest are still under development).<span id='easy-footnote-2-1677' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/large-scale-carbon-capture\/#easy-footnote-bottom-2-1677' title='Global Status of CCS 2019: Targeting Climate Change. &lt;em&gt;Global CCS Institute&lt;\/em&gt;. 2019; 18.'><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> They stored more than 260 million tons of carbon in total according to 2019 data.<span id='easy-footnote-3-1677' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/large-scale-carbon-capture\/#easy-footnote-bottom-3-1677' title='Global Status of CCS 2019: Targeting Climate Change. &lt;em&gt;Global CCS Institute&lt;\/em&gt;. 2019; 30.'><sup>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span> As a comparison, CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions exceeded 35 billion tonnes in 2017.<span id='easy-footnote-4-1677' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/large-scale-carbon-capture\/#easy-footnote-bottom-4-1677' title='Richtie H, Roser M. CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;\/sub&gt; and Greenhouse Gas Emissions. &lt;em&gt;Our World in Data&lt;\/em&gt;, 2020.'><sup>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/reports\/direct-air-capture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\">Direct Air Capture<\/a> (DAC) is the capture of carbon not from point sources but directly from the air<sup>5<\/sup>. This developing technology would complement CCS by offsetting the CO\u00ad<sub>2<\/sub> emitted by, for instance, cars or cattle.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) captures carbon to then use it for other means, such as carbon-neutral fuel production or enhanced oil recovery(see next section).<span id='easy-footnote-5-1677' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/large-scale-carbon-capture\/#easy-footnote-bottom-5-1677' title='Global Status of CCS 2019: Targeting Climate Change. &lt;em&gt;Global CCS Institute&lt;\/em&gt;. 2019; 63.'><sup>5<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>Some applications of Carbon Capture<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eco-business.com\/news\/explainer-what-is-carbon-neutrality-and-can-it-really-be-achieved\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\">Carbon-neutral<\/a> fossil energy can be obtained if the CCS technology is applied to fossil fuel power plants and the emission of carbon is thereby offset by its storage.<span id='easy-footnote-6-1677' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/large-scale-carbon-capture\/#easy-footnote-bottom-6-1677' title='Global Status of CCS 2019: Targeting Climate Change. &lt;em&gt;Global CCS Institute&lt;\/em&gt;. 2019; 12.'><sup>6<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) injects captured carbon into the rock formations trapping oil, to facilitate oil extraction in wells. This method allows this carbon to be both utilized and stored, as it is eventually trapped in rock pores.<span id='easy-footnote-7-1677' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/large-scale-carbon-capture\/#easy-footnote-bottom-7-1677' title='Global Status of CCS 2019: Targeting Climate Change. &lt;em&gt;Global CCS Institute&lt;\/em&gt;. 2019; 30.'><sup>7<\/sup><\/a><\/span>\u00a0EOR represents the biggest part of the total stored carbon as of today.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img class=\"wp-image-1782 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Bildschirmfoto-2022-03-31-um-10.35.02-300x201.png\" alt=\"large scale carbon capture\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Bildschirmfoto-2022-03-31-um-10.35.02-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Bildschirmfoto-2022-03-31-um-10.35.02-1024x685.png 1024w, https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Bildschirmfoto-2022-03-31-um-10.35.02-768x514.png 768w, https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Bildschirmfoto-2022-03-31-um-10.35.02-750x502.png 750w, https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Bildschirmfoto-2022-03-31-um-10.35.02-1140x763.png 1140w, https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Bildschirmfoto-2022-03-31-um-10.35.02.png 1396w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/>\r\n<figcaption><center>Enhanced Oil Recovery process<span id='easy-footnote-8-1677' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/large-scale-carbon-capture\/#easy-footnote-bottom-8-1677' title='Risk analysis for CO2 sequestration at enhanced oil recovery sites. &lt;em&gt;Los Alamos National Laboratory&lt;\/em&gt;, 3 April 2017.'><sup>8<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/center><\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Bioenergy and Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) takes biomass made by photosynthesis to either combust it or convert it into biofuel. The carbon emitted during the process is captured and stored, while the biofuel or bio-energy is used by consumers.<span id='easy-footnote-9-1677' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/large-scale-carbon-capture\/#easy-footnote-bottom-9-1677' title='&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &#039;Segoe UI&#039;, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &#039;Helvetica Neue&#039;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Bioenergy and Carbon Capture and Storage. &lt;\/span&gt;&lt;em style=&quot;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &#039;Segoe UI&#039;, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &#039;Helvetica Neue&#039;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Global CCS Institute&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &#039;Segoe UI&#039;, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &#039;Helvetica Neue&#039;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;. 2019; 3-4.'><sup>9<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>Perspectives for the Future<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Carbon capture technologies give a lot of room for research of new innovative ways to use or store CO<sub>2<\/sub>. Since they are profitable, they can be more realistically implemented than if storing carbon didn&#8217;t provide any short-term benefits. However, most of the initiatives are carbon neutral, not carbon negative. The US currently has the most carbon capture initiatives thanks to help given by its Department of Energy.<span id='easy-footnote-10-1677' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/climatetransform.com\/large-scale-carbon-capture\/#easy-footnote-bottom-10-1677' title='Global Status of CCS 2019: Targeting Climate Change. &lt;em&gt;Global CCS Institute&lt;\/em&gt;. 2019; 39.'><sup>10<\/sup><\/a><\/span>\u00a0In the future, there might be further government help around the world for more large-scale carbon negative capture projects.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every second of the day, an extensive amount of greenhouse gases (mostly carbon dioxide) are emitted into the atmosphere by power plants, heavy industries, cars and other manmade sources. 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