Norway abandons Mongstad carbon capture plans

[muriel_volestrangler]

The outgoing government in Norway has buried much-vaunted plans to capture carbon dioxide and store it underground amid mounting costs and delays.

The oil and energy ministry said the development of full-scale carbon dioxide capture at Mongstad oil refinery had been discontinued.
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Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and his allies lost a general election to conservatives and centrists this month, and are due to step down shortly.
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"At both the national and international level, the development of technologies to capture and store CO2 has taken longer, been more difficult and more costly than expected," Oil and Energy Minister Ola Borten Moe told reporters.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24183443

As far as I know, no-one has overcome the difficulties to produce anything practical yet.

[Nihil]

1. Correct - this is just more pie-in-the-sky BS from the business as usual crowd.

> As far as I know, no-one has overcome the difficulties to produce anything practical yet.

Yet the mythical "CCS" scam is still being heavily promoted by fossil fuel supporters.

[CRH]

2. Yeah, and the BS is well distributed, ...

From oil refineries to coal power plants, carbon capture has been a bust. Not one functioning economical solution that I know of, has been invented. For all the print it has received, CO2 capture and sequestration has provided little proof of concept.

[madokie]

3. I think we should be researching what all can be made from the co2

and going that route rather than sequestration. I just did a start page search on what can be made from co2 and there is a couple products that can use co2 in the process. I mean man is going to be producing co2 one way or another as long as man needs heat for whatever reason.

Heres two examples.
Discovery May Allow Scientists to Make Fuel from Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130326112301.htm

Tomorrow's Diapers May Be Made from Greenhouse Gas
http://www.livescience.com/28239-diaper-chemical-made-from-co2.html

I realize there is a lot of MAY here but it would be a start and if its possible a preferable way to get control of the co2 making process rather than relying on nuclear energy to produce our electricity. Which to me is too dangerous to do plus the making of electricity is only a part of our co2 making so just how much difference can nuclear energy make even if the whole world used it exclusively. It looks like our hands aren't tied just yet. More research in alternates is what we need.

Its not time to throw our hands up and declare defeat just yet