2023-12-04 20:37:07
By Marc Cherki
Published 3 hours ago, Updated 3 hours ago
The Hawiyah Natural Gas Liquids Recovery Plant, Saudi Arabia. Maya Siddiqui / Bloomberg
Several technologies are being developed to continue burning fossil fuels, but their impact is uncertain and risks being too costly.
Sultan al-Jaber, the president of COP28, created controversy this weekend, ensuring that« there was no science indicating that we needed to move away from fossil fuels to contain warming to 1.5 °C »according to remarks revealed by The Guardian, December 3. He suggests that there would be effective and inexpensive methods to reduce the quantity of CO2, already emitted or which will be emitted, into the atmosphere. Techniques are being developed such as CCS (carbon capture and storage) to capture carbon dioxide from the chimneys of highly polluting factories, for example, to then store the carbon underground, particularly in old gas deposits. . And if the carbon dioxide is reused for an industrial process, this technique is called CCUS (carbon capture, utilization and storage). These processes are attractive on paper, but they are far from representing a miracle solution for continuing to burn oil or coal without limit, because they…
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