{"id":2460,"date":"2008-05-05T19:04:40","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T19:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/05\/greenpeace-takes-on-manmade-carbon-sequestration\/"},"modified":"2008-05-05T19:04:40","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T19:04:40","slug":"greenpeace-takes-on-manmade-carbon-sequestration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/greenpeace-takes-on-manmade-carbon-sequestration\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace Takes on Manmade Carbon Sequestration"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>Greenpeace, always good for stirring up trouble, have released a report entitled False Hope to coincide with the seventh annual Carbon Capture & Sequestration conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The report is said to be \u201c\u2026critically examining the status and promise of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.\u201d <\/p>\n Needless to say, Greenpeace aren\u2019t overly happy. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The conclusion of the 44 page report is that CCS technology is not all that it is cracked up to be, and that despite what coal and power industries are saying, CCS \u201c\u2026will not prevent more than a whiff of global warming pollution from reaching the atmosphere in the next few decades\u201d <\/p>\n “Carbon capture and storage is a scam. It is the ultimate coal industry pipe dream,” said Emily Rochon, climate and energy campaigner at Greenpeace International and author of the report. <\/p>\n Greenpeace however have rather naively presented no other option, other than renewable energy options such as solar and wind which, wonderful as they are, are as close to full scale realization as CCS is. From their own website<\/a>, they rather childishly say; <\/p>\n What makes most sense is not building coal-fired power plants in the first place. Carbon is already ‘stored’ safely underground: we call it coal. Let’s leave it there. Adapting an old phrase, “when you find yourself in a (climate) hole, the first thing is to stop digging”.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n They also note that CCS hasn\u2019t been used on any large-scale coal-fired power plants on Earth; however it has been used in other energy production facilities. <\/p>\n\n