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The practical impossibility of large-scale carbon capture and storage

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|2023-05-02T22:53:22-04:00May 3rd, 2023|

Carbon capture and storage is the process of capturing carbon dioxide from an industrial plant before it enters the atmosphere, transporting it, and storing it for centuries to millennia.

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Tesla rejects batteries for net zero storage

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|2023-04-16T03:57:17-04:00April 17th, 2023|

When a world leader in grid scale batteries says they are not the way to net zero electric power it is a big thing.

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Bill Ponton’s “Reality Check” On UK Wind Power: The Issue of Energy Storage

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|2023-04-11T10:15:35-04:00April 4th, 2023|

  Bill Ponton’s new Report, “The Cost of Increasing Wind Power: A Reality Check,” contains a short but pithy section addressing the question of energy storage. Here’s the question to be addressed: If after the first round of overbuilding, adding new wind generation resources adds little useful energy and most of the added generation ends up getting “curtailed,” then why not just add some batteries or other energy storage to the system? Wind energy advocates suggest that some form of batteries can store the excess electricity production until it is needed, and everything will then just balance out in perfect [...]

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Breakthrough in U.S. grid storage estimating

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|2022-06-13T11:27:23-04:00June 16th, 2022|

Now we have a wonderful analysis of the long term storage requirements for making solar and wind reliable. As expected the numbers are enormous.

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111 | Star Storage | EnerVenue

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|2021-04-27T15:47:06-04:00April 27th, 2021|

We explore the advantages of metal hydrogen battery technology, originally developed for space but now poised to support energy storage expansion, with EnerVenue CEO Jorg Heinemann. For pictures and more info, visit http://www.energy-cast.com/111-enervenue.html

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ENERGYCAST: Can widespread battery storage be stable?

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|2020-09-21T12:32:12-04:00September 20th, 2020|

The large-scale battery storage folks make their case. Listen now.

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Battery storage is an infinitesimal part of electrical power

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|2019-06-30T16:31:10-04:00July 2nd, 2019|

Large-scale storage is only an insignificant part of the electrical power industry and doomed to remain so for decades to come. Intermittent wind and solar remain a foolish energy choice.

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Energy storage isn’t ready for wide deployment

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|2018-11-06T14:46:11-05:00November 6th, 2018|

By Todd Royal When understanding and examining energy storage for wide-scale, societal deployment that is scalable, affordable and reliable needs to include these factors: energy security, renewable power production and cyber security. At this time energy storage doesn’t meet any of these criteria.

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Carbon capture and storage a waste of time and money

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|2014-02-25T01:35:16-05:00February 21st, 2014|

Kelvin Kemm likens the scurrying about to combat the supposed ill effects of increasing worldwide atmospheric carbon dioxide to a nation reacting in fear to rumors of ghosts in the attic and in the addled brains of policymakers. Reality no longer matters to those afflicted, as Pierre Gosselin says, to a mental disorder linked to extreme weather fears.

What’s really killing carbon capture and storage?

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|2011-08-01T00:00:00-04:00August 1st, 2011|

Carbon capture and storage could ensure abundant electricity from coal, while cutting the CO2 emissions “responsible for climate change.” Yet, barely two years after “a sense of determination and common cause” inspired the Obama Energy Department to launch CCS projects, industry is “pulling the plug.”What could have gone wrong? Environmentalists had “heralded” the projects. “What’s killing carbon capture?” Bloomberg Businessweek wondered.The economy is “weak,” its reporters suggested. U.S. climate policy is “uncertain.” There is a “national retreat from the goal of reversing climate change,” largely because of energy industry lobbying against cap-and-trade legislation. The administration spent its political capital on Obamacare. [...]

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