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Not coming now – widespread failures.

Elliott ‘18 (Dave Elliott; Emeritus professor of technology policy at the Open University, UK; 9/5/18; “Whatever happened to carbon capture?”; Physics World; https://physicsworld.com/a/whatever-happened-to-carbon-capture/)

CCS has increasingly been seen as expensive and uncertain – the UK abandoned its £1 bn CCS power plant competition in 2015. It’s the same elsewhere. The flagship US Kemper coal CCS project has been halted. Norway, a CCS pioneer with its enhanced oil recovery technology, has now cut its CCS funding. Some work on CCS is still continuing, and there are around 17 projects running worldwide, although all but two of them are industrial gas processing or chemical plants, not power plants, and only four have dedicated geological CO2 storage. While CCS may have some important industrial applications, as far as the power sector is concerned the overall message seems to be that for the moment it is “game over” for CCS, in the EU especially, with renewables offering a cheaper option.

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