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Fossil burning plants that capture carbon do it for the greenwashing, not because there might be some use for the concentrated CO2. Renewable burning plants hav
by usrusr 2y ago
Fossil burning plants that capture carbon do it for the greenwashing, not because there might be some use for the concentrated CO2. Renewable burning plants have little incentive to greenwash. Renewable burning does exist, and I suppose that group is much bigger than the tiny subset of fossil burning plants that actually do capture. If we include waste incineration plants in the renewable group (the true multifuel specialists) then the conclusion is that capacity is already abundant, and some of those might actually be considering capture (but their greenwashing pressure isn't remotely as big as in e.g. the coal business, where the greenwashing is nothing less than an existential last ditch hail mary attempt)
- pfdietz 2y ago> Renewable burning plants have little incentive to greenwash. That just reflects lack of sufficient CO2 price. Make that high enough and it would become profitable for the CO2 to be sequestered rather than released, assuming the CO2 tax applies to negative CO2 emission.