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Honest Government Ad | Carbon Capture & Storage

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A satirical 'Honest Government Ad' from The Juice Media that mocks Australian carbon capture and storage policy. It lays out the fossil fuel industry's influence and the weak results of the technology in a comedic format.

HN links it as a funny but fact-based critique of carbon capture in climate and energy threads.

7 comments from Hacker News

@kornhole2022-09 · in “How to bury carbon? Let plants do the dirty work”

I maintain a large garden and bury probably tons of organic matter underneath and in the beds. It is a pittance of carbon capture and no solution. Here is a fun video about carbon capture. ▶ this video

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@rfd4sgmk8u2021-09 · in “Australia is shaping up to be the villain of COP26 climate talks”

If you want a good video that shows the entrenched problem with the fossil fuel industry that has the Australian political class captured: ▶ this video (Honest Government Ad | Carbon Capture and Storage)

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@robonerd2022-06 · in “Lilium achieves first main wing transition for all-electric aircraft [video]”

Atmospheric carbon capture seems like an petroleum industry scam to me (check the 'Members' page of that website.) In principle it's what plants do, but plants do it using scale; there's a whole bunch of them. CO2 is under 500ppm in our air, and air isn't particularly dense in the first place; the amount of air you'd need to move through your capture plant is immense. On the Costs & Outlook page of this site, they list their potential feedstocks; it's all biomass, except for the 'Technical Potential "Unlimited"' column, which mentions Power-to-Liquids. But how does that actually work and does it actually make sense? Related parody of carbon capture: ▶ this video

@otikik2022-06 · in “Cheap, green hydrogen would be a breakthrough in clean energy”

Carbon Capture and Storage works by capturing research funds and burying it deep, deep into fossil fuel companies accounts, where no tax officer can reach them. ▶ this video

@otikik2022-03 · in “Antarctic sea ice hits lowest minimum on record”

The only thing carbon capture is good at is at capturing public millions in grants and storing them deep, deep into the accounts fossil fuel companies' bank accounts, where no tax officer can reach them. ▶ this video