Environment & Energy

...given the required scale, not to mention its energy requirements.

Like the claim that there is really "green hydrogen" on a meaningful scale, it has always been a greenwashing exercise for fossil fuels.

However these truths notwithstanding, the research efforts into carbon capture, as opposed to its storage, is valuable for the purpose of carbon utilization, in effect sequestering it as useful products, in particular materials, the creation of a closed carbon cycle.

The creation of this closed system should not be represented glibly as cheap or easy. It will be none of thise things. The cost in energy related to the use of carbon dioxide as a raw material is prodigious. Nevertheless it remains feasible in my view, feasible being a very different word than "likely."