CCS articles worth your time

Here’s the launch page for Carbon Capture and Storage on my site

Here’s the page where I post links to the stuff I have written about CCS.

This page is for articles by other people

It is NOT comprehensive. That would be a full-time job, and a pointless one.

There’s also the whole question of ‘trying to sip from the fire-hydrant’ (Hudson, 2024, p112)

Therefore ONLY contains things that

  1. I have read in their entirety or NEAR entirety (I skim sometimes, so sue me).
  2. Are imo worth sharing.  I will flag this as either essential or useful (it’s a value judgement, and I can be wrong, ymmv etc. I will NOT take up your bandwidth with shit. Then again, if something is so shit and actively dangerous, (disinfo, misinfo, propaganda, stupidity) I MIGHT blog about it, as a “public service” (No, nobody has ever said that I am a pompous ass who needs to be on high-dose anti-conceitedness pills. Why do you ask?).
  3. are non-paywalled non-verbiaged walled (academics, take note).

If it’s not here, maybe I just missed it. Whatevs. If you send me stuff, please do so

  1. In the citation format
  2. Separate hyperlink underneath
  3. only both recent and essential articles please. 

Some points about “Essential and useful”

  • That is subjective, ymmv.
  • It does NOT mean “pro-CCS” or “anti-CCS”. It means good facts, good analysis, clearly written.
  • It does not mean I agree with every word (or even most words), but that a rational person with a genuine interest will learn something/a lot, be given things to think about and leads to follow.
  • There is decay in all this.  This Friday’s Euromillions lottery numbers are essential if I know what they are before ticket sales close. After, not so much

When (not if)  I stop doing this I will make an announcement to that effect, and this will become a legacy list. Maybe next week, next month, a week before the apocalypse (so, six months then…).

DateTitle and author (citation) and link)About (one sentence with highlighted country. Essential, useful)Pro, anti, neutral, n/a.Primary country/ies
2024-11-13Chaplain, C. 2024. UK could sell carbon capture services to other countries, minister says. The Ipaper, October 13Quote grabs from a puff piece interview in “The House” magazine. UsefulProUK
2024-11-10Open Letter from 40 NGOs vs EU spending on CCSExplains anti-CCS position of a broad coalition of NGOs. Essential (NB remember, posting isn’t endorsing)antiEurope
2024-10-11Wilkins, B. 2024. Green Groups Blast ‘Reckless, Unscientific’ EU Carbon Capture Plans. Common Dreams, October 11

Useful short article based on press release about open letter (see above) and another IIEFA report. UsefulantiEurope
2024-10-11McMullin, B. 2024. Carbon capture: what it is, and whether it works. Interview on RTE Radio, October 11Very nicely done by interviewee and intervieweer, over 12 minutes on Irish Radio Station. Essential.antiIreland, UK
2024-10-11Monbiot, G. 2024. Labour’s carbon-capture scheme will be Starmer’s white elephant: a terrible mistake costing billions. The Guardian, October 11.Lays into policy making, says CCS will be like HS2.  Too starry-eyed about green cement and steel. Useful shading towards essentialantiUK
2024-10-07Lockwood, M. 2024. Transparency and power in energy policymaking. Sussex Energy Group, October 7On the secrecy and politics surrounding research into CCS policy. Useful shading towards essential (NB Matthew Lockwood a former boss, and current friend)n/aUK
2024-10-4Millard, R. and Pickard, J. 2024. UK pledges £22bn in funding for carbon capture and storage projects.  Financial Times, October 4Context on the CCS policy process. It’s the FT, so never less than useful.neutralUK
2024-10-02Kurmelovs, R. 2024. In Australia, a New Way to Avoid Decommissioning Oil Fields: Call Them Carbon Capture Projects. Drilled, October 2Australia oil industry bullshit and capture of the Australian state, in historical and global context. Essential [NB Royce is a friend and collaborator, so MRDA]antiAustralia

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