Carbon Capture?
‘So, we ought to deal with this carbon capture problem, let’s tell the press we intend to spend £20bn on research into carbon capture - that should shake them up!’
’How about we use that £22bn Black Hole we have uncovered and stuff all the carbon in that - it’ll never escape from that!’ Anon.
Toodles, he heats his home with cold draughts and cooks his food with magnets.
'If you are not part of the problem there's good money to be made prolonging the solution' Anon.
A lot of oil, gas and petrochemical companies, plus the contracting engineering companies who serve them, have jumped on the CCS bandwagon. It's a money-spinner for them, especially when tax-payers money is thrown their way.
CCS projects the world over have over-promised and under-delivered. No-one has got it working properly, most are expensive follies.
Businessmen & politicians have turned C02 into a commodity; one that can be traded, offset, bought and sold...
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