Christopher Booker, Telegraph
"...The only problem is that two recent studies have shown why carbon capture and storage on this scale is simply not physically possible. Two academic petroleum experts in Texas, Michael and Christine Economides, have shown that it is impossible to inject such huge quantities of CO2 into underground aquifers – 20,000 tons a day for a 1 gigawatt power station – without fracturing the surrounding rock, making further injection impossible. This finding is confirmed in a study by the Grantham Institute at Imperial College.
In other words, that £4 billion to be spent in Britain (with a further £3.3 billion to be spent by the EU on eight pilot schemes) will be wholly wasted. Burying CO2 in holes in the ground is no more than a hugely expensive fantasy. Yet the Tory party insists that no coal plants can be replaced without a system which cannot physically work. "
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