Good news- Carbon Capture plant shuts down

[packman]

On the surface it looks like a step back, but a coal electric producing plant that was capturing carbon emissions, realizes it was a mistake and is shutting down.

Early last year, the Trump administration’s Department of Energy celebrated a special birthday. “Happy Third Operating Anniversary, Petra Nova!” the agency trumpeted in a press release. The release boasted of a coal-fired power plant in Texas that seemed to have done the impossible: It successfully removed carbon dioxide from the plant’s emissions for three years, safely storing them.

The celebration was early—Petra Nova barely made it to its fourth birthday before being shuttered. Last week, NRG Energy, which owns the project, announced that it would be shut down indefinitely, in what may be one of the last gasps for carbon capture and storage technology in the U.S.

Reason why---

“Right now, the cheapest way to make electricity is solar and wind,” Cohan (professor at Rice Univ.) says. “It no longer makes sense to keep an old coal plant around to capture its carbon when you could far more affordably replace it with cleaner sources.”

https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-only-carbon-capture-plant-in-the-u-s-just-closed-1846177778

[Wicked Blue]

1. Carbon capture is a scam nt