2023-04-27

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Carbon capture technology, if done wrong could make climate change worse. New carbon capture trains are a brilliant idea, using caught CO2 to frack for more oil, NOT A BRILLIANT IDEA. In this video we explain why the insane engineering of carbon capture could be a really bad thing!

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Written by: Greg Brown

Edited by: Luka Šarlija

Drawings by: Max Simmons and Greg Brown

References:

https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/78633715-15c0-44e1-81df-41123c556d57/DirectAirCapture_Akeytechnologyfornetzero.pdf

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2542435122002999?dgcid=coauthor

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2516-1083/abf1ce/meta#prgeabf1cef1

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/20/how-trains-suck-carbon-dioxide-could-create-net-zero-rail-industry/

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2022/07/21/how-greened-trains-could-suck-co2-out-of-the-air.html

While people are talking about James Corden, Adele, hockey, the Leafs, we are thinking about Carbon Capture. The science, the engineering and the physics of how it all works.