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Scaling carbon capture and carbon removals does not mean business-as-usual for the fossil fuel industry

by Leonardo Buizza, Energy Transition Commission, November 2023

„As COP28 draws near, increasing attention is being paid to a crucial topic: the future potential and role for carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS), and carbon dioxide removals (CDR). This year has seen scandals bloom around carbon offsets, increasing talk of “net-zero barrels” of oil, and the rise of the idea that carbon capture will allow the fossil fuel industry to maintain business-as-usual. Opposing arguments have emerged that the potential of both CCUS and CDR is either incredibly limited, or near limitless. Given the link to fossil fuel use and emissions of carbon dioxide, this leads to a very wide, almost incredible range of scenarios for future demand for fossil fuels – as we’ve highlighted in the chart below.“

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Frontier buyers sign $47M in offtake agreements with CarbonCapture Inc. and Heirloom

frontierclimate.com, November 15, 2023

  • CarbonCapture and Heirloom will remove a total of 72,000 tons on behalf of Frontier buyers by 2030.
  • DAC, when paired with geologic storage, offers high durability, limited physical footprint, and straightforward verifiability making it a promising carbon removal pathway.
  • Frontier has facilitated purchases on behalf of Frontier Founding Members Stripe, Alphabet, Shopify, Meta, and McKinsey Sustainability, as well as Autodesk, H&M Group, JPMorgan Chase, and Workday. Aledade, Boom Supersonic, Canva, SKIMS, Wise, and Zendesk have purchased via Watershed’s partnership with Frontier.

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Equinor and Captura To Scale Innovative Ocean CO2 Removal

by Sasha Ranevska, carbonherald.com, November 1

„The multinational energy company Equinor and the direct ocean capture (DOC) company Captura have announced a partnership to develop industrial-scale solutions to remove carbon dioxide from the ocean. The two companies hope that this collaboration could potentially be a starting point for building large-scale commercial plants in key regions globally.“

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Study shows support for carbon removal but great concern over solar manipulation

by Ulrich von Lampe, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), phys.org, October 30

„According to forecasts, even the strategy to gradually reduce climate gas emissions to zero everywhere will no longer be enough to limit global heating to well below 2°C. Today, the discussion is also about „negative emissions,“ i.e., the removal of the most important greenhouse gas, CO2, from the atmosphere. Under the heading of „solar radiation management,“ some are even talking about a potential reflection of incoming sunlight. A new study led by the Berlin-based climate research institute MCC (Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change) now sheds light on the acceptance of such options.“

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The innovators trying to bring down the sky-high cost of direct air capture

by Mike Scott, reuters.com, October 24, 2023

„Summary

  • Key divide in DAC is between processes that use high and low temperatures to capture CO2
  • Low-temperature solid sorbent systems can use solar, wind, geothermal and waste nuclear power heat, but high-temperature liquid solvent systems rely on natural gas and are less expensive
  • All are innovating to cut energy use.
  • Alternative technologies being used to capture the CO2 include membrane separation using zeolites and electro-swing absorption.“

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How Iceland’s Carbfix is harnessing the power of turning CO2 into stone

by Terry Slavin, reuters.com, October 30, 10:59 AM

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  • Carbfix permanently sequesters CO2 by mixing it with water and injecting into basalt rock
  • Technology speeds up a natural process that normally takes thousands of years into two
  • Carbfix storing CO2 from Climeworks‘ direct air capture plant, but CO2 storage from hard to abate sector much bigger market
  • Coda Terminal project aims to mineralise 3 million tons of CO2 captured from European industry
  • CO2SeaStone project testing process with seawater to expand technology’s application“

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The U.S. Energy Department Is Spending $36 Million On Ocean Carbon-Capture Research

by Alejandro de la Garza, time.com, October 26, 2023 11:00 AM EDT

„In recent years, startups have begun trying to scale up methods to use the world’s oceans to remove carbon dioxide from an overheating atmosphere. As of today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is getting in on the idea too. As TIME can exclusively report, the department is distributing $36 million to 11 scientific projects across the U.S. that aim to help quantify exactly how much carbon potential ocean projects would be locking away.“

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