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E - CCS and CCUS
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E - BECCS Review
E - Low Carbon Transition Knowledgebase
E - Mitigation Technologies
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2006 CCS is expected to be BIG, and get cheaper
2006 CCS is expected to be BIG, and get cheaper
2007 Philanthropy can help implement CCS
2015 Avoided cost of CO2 for U.S. electricity technologies
2015 Capital cost of energy technologies in the U.S.
2015 CCS projects
2015 High CCS Case
2015 Levelized cost of energy technologies in the U.S.
2015 The implications of CCS at scale
2015 Value of potentially unburnable carbon
2017 Actual and expected operation dates for large CCS projects
2017 Carbon budget estimates depend significantly on CCS and other assumptions
2017 Comparing CCS in WEO vs. SSP scenarios
2019 CCUS scenario MACCs
2019 CO2 removal and utilization potentials and costs
2019 Current cost of CCUS vs. conventionally produced products
2019 Energy related CO2 emission have risen due to higher energy demand
2019 High cost of carbon capture
2019/8 CCS being promoted only because it can be used to reassure investors about coal's role in a 2oC world
2019/8 Coal21 (Australia) launches $4 million advertising drive pushing carbon capture and storage for coal
2019/8 Cost of adding CCS to average US coal plant is four times cost of solar + storage in parts of US
2019/8 IEA estimates that achieving 2oC target will require 210 GW of coal to be fitted with CCS by 2040
2021 Global capture of CO2 emissions to 2050
Californians will benefit from Carbon Capture technology, state panel says - Bakersfield Environmental News
Carbon capture has a 50 year history of being good PR for the fossil fuel industry and not much else
CCS and DAC as distraction
CCS by 2020 under 4 scenarios
CCS costs vs other technologies
CCS is a rounding error in global warming mitigation. It’s hard to see how it could possibly be more.
CDR/CCS has potential, but scale is daunting
E - CO2 Air Capture
Environmentalist criticism of carbon capture: The key problem with carbon capture, as many environmentalists see it, is that fossil fuel producers can continue to operate as they are operating now, without having to overhaul the way they do things.
If CCS funding had been spent on wind, at least 50% more CO2 would have been avoided
If the world is to be on the right path for net zero, that number would need to rise to around 1.7 billion tonnes of CO2 by around 2030. That's a 40x increase just the next eight years.
Projects in the U.S.
Sectoral emissions under 450 ppm fulltech vs no CCS scenarios
When will CCS go commercial?
Wind & solar are displacing roughly 35 times as much CO2 every year as the complete global history of CCS
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I - CCSCarbonCaptureandStorage