carbon sequestration, definition of

The uptake and storage of carbon. Trees and plants, for example, absorb carbon dioxide, release the oxygen and store the carbon. Fossil fuels were at one time biomass and continue to store the carbon until burned.

Carbon sequestration is usually a natural process although machine based techniques can be used to extract or prevent carbon from getting into the atmosphere and put it into long term storage.

• A Bit Of Perspective Goes A Long Way
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• Earthquakes, Leakage, Expense, Death by Asphyxiation – Is There No Beginning to the Advantages of Carbon Capture?
  DeSmog is all in on the invented climate crisis and a fervent supporter of the political Net Zero fantasy. It obviously hates all hydrocarbon use and has reported on the problems of carbon capture. For its part, mainstream media just sticks with demonising...
• Civil War Breaks Out in the Green Blob But Don’t Expect the BBC to Report it
  The hatred arises because carbon capture is seen as legitimising the continued use of hydrocarbons. The less insane greens are finally realising that they cannot ban hydrocarbons altogether. This is due to the fact that half the world’s population would...
• Govt To Waste £22bn On Unproven Carbon Capture
  What is certain though is that producing electricity using carbon capture is more expensive than not using carbon capture, not least because the process itself wastes a lot of energy...
• AEP’s Carbon Capture Fantasy
  The idiot is back again
• How the failure of carbon capture risks causing a net zero nightmare
  Meanwhile Miliband’s plans to rely on carbon capture are in ruins
• The Carbon Capture Con
  The only certain outcome from CCUS is more expensive electricity and a waste of energy resources to do all the separation, compressing and pumping.
• The Cost of EPA’s Senseless CO2 Capture
  Finally, besides being expensive and futile, keep in mind: Plants need CO2, along with sunlight, water, and nutrients from the soil to produce oxygen and food, both of which are essential for all living beings.
• Green Blob Tells Government to Spend £30 Billion on Machine to Remove CO2 From the Air
  In other words, the green agenda has produced a useless machine whose only function is to produce designs for useless machines.
• Britain must spend £30bn to strip CO2 from atmosphere and hit net zero, experts warn
  And as the report admits, they have no idea how or whether this daft idea will actually work. So they also have no idea of its cost – it might be £30bn, or it might be £300bn.

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