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Letter: What to do about the carbon capture crisis? (2)

Published 1 May 2024

From Andrew Taubman, Sydney, Australia

Carbon capture and storage is a complete waste of time, money and effort. It can’t work at the scale necessary to make any meaningful difference in the time available and consumes a lot of energy.

We need to focus on what will make the greatest difference in the least time: a complete cessation of new coal and gas extraction; existing fossil fuel power plants being wound down as soon as possible; German nuclear plants brought back into action, but no new ones built; and all transport powered by electricity or hydrogen. These are the only things that will make any substantial difference.

Issue no. 3489 published 4 May 2024

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