CARBON CAPTURE AND SEQUESTRATION sounds like a bit of a no-brainer. I mean, carbon emitted from industrial facilities’ smokestacks is bad, right? So why not just put a big vacuum thing on the stacks, capture the bad stuff and blow it back into the ground where it originally came from?
Simple, right?
Not really. Capturing and sequestering carbon, especially from coal plants, is complicated, convoluted, energy-intensive and rather expensive. And the technology has yet to be proven on a large scale. Still, it may be fossil fuel companies’ best bet for continuing to rake in a