Carbon capture and storage

It’s likely that there will be no successful green transition
without an element of carbon capture, storage and re-use. The oil
industry has been burying CO2 underground since the 1970s, so the
infrastructure and technology is already available, but removing
CO2 from the air at scale is new, and the companies doing it are
small. We head to an experimental ‘direct air capture’ plant in
Canada to hear how they are making fuel out of air, and explore
what changes will be required to ensure that their industry
becomes a significant one in the years to come. But if we think
that a technology fix is out there, might we limit other efforts?


Presenters: Neal Razzell and Manuela Saragosa


Contributors: Steve Oldham, CEO, Carbon Engineering Dr Jennifer
Wilcox, Acting Assistant Secretary for the Office of Fossil
Energy and Carbon Management at the US Department of Energy Prof
Stuart Haszeldine, professor of carbon storage and capture at the
University of Edinburgh, Scotland Dr Simon Evans, policy editor,
Carbon Brief Producer: Jordan Dunbar Series producer: Rosamund
Jones Editor: Emma Rippon