Honest Government Ad | Carbon Capture & Storage
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN links it as a funny but fact-based critique of carbon capture in climate and energy threads.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2021 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Recommends rfd4sgmk8u · 2021-09 · on “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)
Recommends kornhole · 2022-09 · on “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]
Cites newt_slowly · 2021-09 · on “Europe’s energy crisis is about to go global as gas prices soar”
Since you didn't go into detail, I'm going to guess that you are referring to atmospheric CCS being widely deployed in the future. Unfortunately CCS is not and will not be practical. [1] [2] I can explain my critiques in more detail if you clarify exactly what your argument is. [1] [LINK] [2] Comical, but fact-based take: [this video]
Cites partomniscient · 2022-01 · on “Shell’s carbon capture plant is emitting more than it’s capturing”
Here's ( [this video] ) a satirical 'honest government ad' on carbon capture from an Australian viewpoint. We're attempting to apply dodgy accounting tricks to reality. It doesn't work. (I know there's greater transparency without it, but I too would really like []() markup for links on HN.)
Cites robonerd · 2022-06 · on “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]