Burrito Justice on Nostr: carbon capture has always seemed like bullshit, but holy crap, the oil industry ...

carbon capture has always seemed like bullshit, but
holy crap, the oil industry actually *mines* carbon dioxide to inject into old wells to push out more oil… and they count it as carbon capture because half of it stays underground

“almost three-quarters of existing CCS projects are used to pump more oil”

https://www.desmog.com/2023/09/25/how-carbon-capture-and-storage-projects-are-driving-new-oil-and-gas-extraction-globally/