The kingdom is elevating the use of fans and filters to pull carbon dioxide out of the sky. But its motives are under scrutiny at global climate talks.
It’s not so much that carbon capture will draw attention from the transition, it’s that the transition will be blocked by the desire $$$ from greedy fucks don’t give a shit about any transition whatsoever:
“Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said Monday that the country would oppose any COP28 text that calls for reducing global fossil fuel consumption.”
This isn’t some qualified plan to offset emissions with carbon capture, it’s a qualified plan to continue as is while throwing shade on renewables and continuing to throw some pocket change at unicorn tech like carbon capture that has seen virtually no advancement in the 20 years it’s been touted so that people feel like we’ll eventually have some magical fix for all the problems we’ve created.
This isn’t some qualified plan to offset emissions with carbon capture, it’s a qualified plan to continue as is while throwing shade on renewables and continuing to throw some pocket change at unicorn tech like carbon capture that has seen virtually no advancement in the 20 years it’s been touted so that people feel like we’ll eventually have some magical fix for all the problems we’ve created.
saying it again, louder, for the people in the back. this guy’s entire job is to sell oil. if tossing pocket change to some random tech that sounds fancy is gonna let him sell more oil… he’s going to do it.
It’s not so much that carbon capture will draw attention from the transition, it’s that the transition will be blocked by the desire $$$ from greedy fucks don’t give a shit about any transition whatsoever:
“Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said Monday that the country would oppose any COP28 text that calls for reducing global fossil fuel consumption.”
This isn’t some qualified plan to offset emissions with carbon capture, it’s a qualified plan to continue as is while throwing shade on renewables and continuing to throw some pocket change at unicorn tech like carbon capture that has seen virtually no advancement in the 20 years it’s been touted so that people feel like we’ll eventually have some magical fix for all the problems we’ve created.
saying it again, louder, for the people in the back. this guy’s entire job is to sell oil. if tossing pocket change to some random tech that sounds fancy is gonna let him sell more oil… he’s going to do it.