Very, very interesting. I would hope that the new administration’s EPA and Dept of Interior would try to claw back some of the IRA funds marked for CCS. Would love to know their stance on this.
And CO2 levels are at the lowest levels they have been in thousands of years. This is all insanity and it will never stop.
Also, the evil megalomaniac, Bill Gates, is also making billions on this carbon capture grift.
The other issue is that CO2 under high pressure underground can still leak out or make it's way underground and come in contact with water. The CO2 then acidifies the water, and the acidic water can leache out arsenic and heavy metals, and create acidic toxic waters.
So, the Nut Zero warmists pushing carbon capture are also the same people who want to end fossil fuels entirely, so they’ve somehow set up this Rube Goldberg scheme to waste energy sucking CO2 out of the air and paying fossil fuel companies to use it to extract more fossil fuels, because they need those to back up their intermittent wind and solar plants. And somehow, this is going to save the planet from a climate emergency ( or is it a crisis? I’m not sure what the proper nomenclature is this week)?
What you say about CCS is true, historically but all of the new schemes are designed to store the CO2 in underground reservoirs, some of which were once oil or gas fields but are now empty,. They are used because the infrastructure is there, boreholes pipelines, all of which cost a lot to replace. But the prime mover in this new industry is simply disposal, hopefully for ever of villainous CO2 that they have been told is a pollutant.
Any reasonable demonstration of CO2 "storage" will trigger very lucrative tax credits and carbon trading chits.
Even you, as Mr. Dewhirst or a company that you form, is eligible for these tax breaks if you can meet the conditions. See IRS link in article for Dewhirst Storage, LLC potentialities.
I perhaps will touch upon the significant problem of CO2 leakage from these "storage" reservoirs in the future.
Please note that much "storage" is located in the vicinity of oil and gas fields. Not a coincidence, and may be tapped for EOR.
Again thanks for your excellent comments, restacks appreciated.
I guess like James Dean the oil companies are "just to rich to kill", and too rich to make getting rid of the IRA a real thing! We will see how that plays out - but I think some of that 45Q subsidies will stay - but I have been wrong before - once I think!
It seems we subsidize everything these days. The deeper you look the more money is flowing from here, there and everywhere out of the taxpayer funds. DOGE is doing some good, just scratching the surface. Some times you just want to scream - "Just Stop". Like the solar scams I research, what a wonderful money laundering scheme. I've never been that clever with money. We are no longer a capitalist country. It has slowly eroded out from under us and those same capitalists (elitists) are the ones we are letting do it to us.
Fear tactics are a great motivator for moving money. Started when they first set up the banks back in the day of the Crusades. It helps to just not think about it to much, we are captive to our circumstances! That's what most of the low to mid income people do they don't have the luxury of doing much else!
hurry up and want... not my thing... I hope we are at least educating a few, but mostly it seems some politicians have preconceived ideas of grassroots as being idiots. Pity we can't answer back during testimony.... that's when my "Irish" gets up.
We're really just a side show. The real lobbyists have already done their work! Of course we have tried out best too.
I don't know if you've seen this, but I thought it might interest you. A research paper, published in 2017, basically says that atmospheric and surface warming, on rocky planets that don't have significant geothermal surface warming, is a function of the amount of solar energy striking the atmosphere and atmospheric pressure....period. The makeup of the atmosphere, including greenhouse gasses, is irrelevant. The authors claim that this is universal to all of the rocky planets in the solar system, regardless of the makeup of their atmospheres. I've included links to the substack article about this research paper, and also to the research paper itself. The paper is quite technical, and I didn't make any attempt to understand the formulas and equations, but the conclusions drawn from the research certainly blow all of the mainstream climate modeling mumbo jumbo out of the water.
CO2 is not the cause of global warming-
Global warming due to increasing absorbed solar radiation
Geophysical Research Letters
April 200936(7)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228652166_Global_warming_due_to_increasing_absorbed_solar_radiation
Very, very interesting. I would hope that the new administration’s EPA and Dept of Interior would try to claw back some of the IRA funds marked for CCS. Would love to know their stance on this.
And CO2 levels are at the lowest levels they have been in thousands of years. This is all insanity and it will never stop.
Also, the evil megalomaniac, Bill Gates, is also making billions on this carbon capture grift.
Agreed Dave, thank you for commenting.
The other issue is that CO2 under high pressure underground can still leak out or make it's way underground and come in contact with water. The CO2 then acidifies the water, and the acidic water can leache out arsenic and heavy metals, and create acidic toxic waters.
So, the Nut Zero warmists pushing carbon capture are also the same people who want to end fossil fuels entirely, so they’ve somehow set up this Rube Goldberg scheme to waste energy sucking CO2 out of the air and paying fossil fuel companies to use it to extract more fossil fuels, because they need those to back up their intermittent wind and solar plants. And somehow, this is going to save the planet from a climate emergency ( or is it a crisis? I’m not sure what the proper nomenclature is this week)?
That pretty much says it all Harry, welcome too!
TC
Thanks for this post, it was very interesting.
The insanity of anyone believing CO2 being a poison, when it’s literally the key to planetary survival, never fails to amaze me.
Thank you for being a reader!
The last administration was overtly anti oil and gas industry, yet they promote extraction of more oil which leads to more evil CO2. Crazy.
Restacks appreciated. All free all the time 😄
What you say about CCS is true, historically but all of the new schemes are designed to store the CO2 in underground reservoirs, some of which were once oil or gas fields but are now empty,. They are used because the infrastructure is there, boreholes pipelines, all of which cost a lot to replace. But the prime mover in this new industry is simply disposal, hopefully for ever of villainous CO2 that they have been told is a pollutant.
Thank you for this comment Howard.
Any reasonable demonstration of CO2 "storage" will trigger very lucrative tax credits and carbon trading chits.
Even you, as Mr. Dewhirst or a company that you form, is eligible for these tax breaks if you can meet the conditions. See IRS link in article for Dewhirst Storage, LLC potentialities.
I perhaps will touch upon the significant problem of CO2 leakage from these "storage" reservoirs in the future.
Please note that much "storage" is located in the vicinity of oil and gas fields. Not a coincidence, and may be tapped for EOR.
Again thanks for your excellent comments, restacks appreciated.
I guess like James Dean the oil companies are "just to rich to kill", and too rich to make getting rid of the IRA a real thing! We will see how that plays out - but I think some of that 45Q subsidies will stay - but I have been wrong before - once I think!
Most people in the USA are mid to low income.
Why should they have to subsidize oil companies in general and CO2-EOR? Or pay off somebody else's student loans?
It seems we subsidize everything these days. The deeper you look the more money is flowing from here, there and everywhere out of the taxpayer funds. DOGE is doing some good, just scratching the surface. Some times you just want to scream - "Just Stop". Like the solar scams I research, what a wonderful money laundering scheme. I've never been that clever with money. We are no longer a capitalist country. It has slowly eroded out from under us and those same capitalists (elitists) are the ones we are letting do it to us.
Fear tactics are a great motivator for moving money. Started when they first set up the banks back in the day of the Crusades. It helps to just not think about it to much, we are captive to our circumstances! That's what most of the low to mid income people do they don't have the luxury of doing much else!
Agreed JF!
How is your advocacy doing in TX? What's the latest.
hurry up and want... not my thing... I hope we are at least educating a few, but mostly it seems some politicians have preconceived ideas of grassroots as being idiots. Pity we can't answer back during testimony.... that's when my "Irish" gets up.
We're really just a side show. The real lobbyists have already done their work! Of course we have tried out best too.
I don't know if you've seen this, but I thought it might interest you. A research paper, published in 2017, basically says that atmospheric and surface warming, on rocky planets that don't have significant geothermal surface warming, is a function of the amount of solar energy striking the atmosphere and atmospheric pressure....period. The makeup of the atmosphere, including greenhouse gasses, is irrelevant. The authors claim that this is universal to all of the rocky planets in the solar system, regardless of the makeup of their atmospheres. I've included links to the substack article about this research paper, and also to the research paper itself. The paper is quite technical, and I didn't make any attempt to understand the formulas and equations, but the conclusions drawn from the research certainly blow all of the mainstream climate modeling mumbo jumbo out of the water.
https://2ndsmartestguyintheworld.substack.com/p/psyop-climate-change-debunked-new?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
https://www.studocu.com/en-us/document/university-of-idaho/organic-chemistry-ii-lab/new-insights-on-the-physical-nature-of-the-atmospheric-greenhouse-effect-deduced-from-an-empirical-planetary-temperature-model/4105276
Freedom, this is a great find and I appreciate you forwarding it to me.
Along the same lines, we have a Nobel winner in our corner, easy to follow !:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpcqzZliEag&list=WL&index=3
What a massive waste of time and money(our)
Greatly enjoy this type of content! Thanks!