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The Conundrum that is BECCS (Part 3 of a 3-part blog)
August 29, 2021
At its simplest, Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) sounds like the go-to climate solution: convert your coal or gas-fired power station to burn biomass. Source that biomass from fast-growing ‘sustainable forests’, with as many new carbon-sequestering trees planted as are cut down –…
2021: Make or Break For The UK’s Climate Strategy – instalment (C)
Climate Change,Energy,CCUS,Government,Nuclear
February 2, 2021
Both the Ten Point Plan and the Energy White Paper wax lyrical about the potential for CCUS (Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage), using pretty much the same kind of language as Ministers and fossil fuel companies have been using since the mid-1990s when the technology was first deemed to be…