How BECCS Can Help Deliver Europe’s 2040 Industrial Carbon Removal Targets
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Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and reaching climate neutrality by 2050 remains one of the EU’s greatest challenges. Carbon…
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Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and reaching climate neutrality by 2050 remains one of the EU’s greatest challenges. Carbon…
How BECCS Can Help Deliver Europe’s 2040 Industrial Carbon Removal Targets - EUROPE SAYS
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and reaching climate neutrality by 2050 remains one of the EU’s greatest challenges. Carbon Dioxide Removals (CDR) will be
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November 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
How BECCS Can Help Deliver Europe’s 2040 Industrial Carbon Removal Targets
https://www.europesays.com/2544387/
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and reaching climate neutrality by 2050 remains one of the EU’s greatest challenges. Carbon…
https://www.europesays.com/2544387/
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and reaching climate neutrality by 2050 remains one of the EU’s greatest challenges. Carbon…
We can find suitable land with sunlight, water, and nutrients to grow plants, wait years to harvest the biomass and burn it for energy, hope to capture the CO₂ with carbon capture and storage technology, and find a suitable spot to bury the CO₂ permanently.
OR we can use solar panels.
OR we can use solar panels.
October 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
We can find suitable land with sunlight, water, and nutrients to grow plants, wait years to harvest the biomass and burn it for energy, hope to capture the CO₂ with carbon capture and storage technology, and find a suitable spot to bury the CO₂ permanently.
OR we can use solar panels.
OR we can use solar panels.
We could make it even more efficient by capturing all the hot air coming from advocates for BECCS, bio fuels, etc.
October 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
We could make it even more efficient by capturing all the hot air coming from advocates for BECCS, bio fuels, etc.
Someone explain to me why this is better than BECCS or biochar or burying wood in the Black Sea.
Clever new carbon sequestration idea: bury wood.
Burying Wood Debris Can Help Slow Global Warming, Study Shows | College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences | University of Maryland
UMD Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Professor Ning Zeng co-authored new research on a simple way to capture carb
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October 27, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Someone explain to me why this is better than BECCS or biochar or burying wood in the Black Sea.
BECCS can be net-negative in some situations even at somewhat low capture rates if it is done to residues of crops or municipal waste but it can also be net-positive at very high capture rates if there is fossil fertilizer and land-use changes (including as opportunity cost) involved.
October 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
BECCS can be net-negative in some situations even at somewhat low capture rates if it is done to residues of crops or municipal waste but it can also be net-positive at very high capture rates if there is fossil fertilizer and land-use changes (including as opportunity cost) involved.
I don't know if anybody did check, but I would not expect any to get close to 1.5°C, simply because no one was modelling for 1.5°C back then (RCP2.6 was hard enough as it was), and you would not get there without trying...
(& if they tried, it would likely have all been BECCS at that point)
(& if they tried, it would likely have all been BECCS at that point)
October 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I don't know if anybody did check, but I would not expect any to get close to 1.5°C, simply because no one was modelling for 1.5°C back then (RCP2.6 was hard enough as it was), and you would not get there without trying...
(& if they tried, it would likely have all been BECCS at that point)
(& if they tried, it would likely have all been BECCS at that point)
The thing that's really insane about this smear is that I'm simply saying in plain English what the study I cite says in technical language. He's just stamping his feet in rage at the list of side effects lol.
October 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
The thing that's really insane about this smear is that I'm simply saying in plain English what the study I cite says in technical language. He's just stamping his feet in rage at the list of side effects lol.
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🐘🐘Whitehead does call for less biomass imports BUT avoids elephant in room
Drax — the UK’s biggest single emitter — is being rebranded as a BECCS project, claiming to be “carbon negative” while burning imported forest biomass.
It’s climate greenwash, not GGR
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🐘🐘Whitehead does call for less biomass imports BUT avoids elephant in room
Drax — the UK’s biggest single emitter — is being rebranded as a BECCS project, claiming to be “carbon negative” while burning imported forest biomass.
It’s climate greenwash, not GGR
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New research finds the Drax AI Data Centre would burn 2.5 MILLION tonnes of wood up to 2030, and then rising to 5 MILLION tonnes going forward
If approved, it means years more of Drax's dirty tree burning at the cost of forests, communities & our planet
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/fears-d...
If approved, it means years more of Drax's dirty tree burning at the cost of forests, communities & our planet
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Fears Drax-powered AI centre may 'burn a tree every time it is used'
A new data centre which will get its energy from Drax power station "could end up burning a tree every time it is used", opponents say.
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October 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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🐘🐘Whitehead does call for less biomass imports BUT avoids elephant in room
Drax — the UK’s biggest single emitter — is being rebranded as a BECCS project, claiming to be “carbon negative” while burning imported forest biomass.
It’s climate greenwash, not GGR
bsky.app/profile/stop...
🐘🐘Whitehead does call for less biomass imports BUT avoids elephant in room
Drax — the UK’s biggest single emitter — is being rebranded as a BECCS project, claiming to be “carbon negative” while burning imported forest biomass.
It’s climate greenwash, not GGR
bsky.app/profile/stop...
The way you make them work on both fronts is just to use waste wood (town dumps, sawmill byproducts, etc.) to avoid the land use issues and avoid the upstream costs. But that necessarily puts a cap on the total scale of BECCS as a climate solution.
October 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The way you make them work on both fronts is just to use waste wood (town dumps, sawmill byproducts, etc.) to avoid the land use issues and avoid the upstream costs. But that necessarily puts a cap on the total scale of BECCS as a climate solution.
That was my point in the response to the first post. If you're going after waste wood, fine. But those are niche opportunities and when we're looking at the pot'l CO2 abatement of BECCS you either have to show a very small, accurate potential or a very large, inaccurate potential using virgin wood
October 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
That was my point in the response to the first post. If you're going after waste wood, fine. But those are niche opportunities and when we're looking at the pot'l CO2 abatement of BECCS you either have to show a very small, accurate potential or a very large, inaccurate potential using virgin wood
I'd also note that what ADM is doing in Decatur is CCS but not BECCS. Ethanol is unique in that you have a nearly pure CO2 stream and therefore can avoid a lot of gas separation costs. (And Decatur is on top of geology that's uniquely suited to CO2 storage, saving piping costs)
October 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I'd also note that what ADM is doing in Decatur is CCS but not BECCS. Ethanol is unique in that you have a nearly pure CO2 stream and therefore can avoid a lot of gas separation costs. (And Decatur is on top of geology that's uniquely suited to CO2 storage, saving piping costs)
What is BECCS, and why is it so complicated?
The problem with Big Tech’s favorite carbon removal tech
What’s BECCS, and why’s it so complicated?
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October 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
What is BECCS, and why is it so complicated?
BECCS — attempting to capture CO₂ from biomass-burning plants and storing it underground — is the carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technique that has sold the most credits. But its climate benefits may be overstated, it could incentivize deforestation, and the carbon accounting might be distorted.
Big Tech’s big bet on a controversial carbon removal tactic
Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage can scale faster than other approaches. But some experts are dubious about the climate benefits.
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October 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
BECCS — attempting to capture CO₂ from biomass-burning plants and storing it underground — is the carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technique that has sold the most credits. But its climate benefits may be overstated, it could incentivize deforestation, and the carbon accounting might be distorted.
James this article is a little disappointing. Which of the big BECCS / bioCCS offtakes are "harvesting wood?" All that I can think of MSFT or Frontier buying are using residues as feedstock. This balance is not reflected in how you've presented the "objections" to BECCS.
October 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
James this article is a little disappointing. Which of the big BECCS / bioCCS offtakes are "harvesting wood?" All that I can think of MSFT or Frontier buying are using residues as feedstock. This balance is not reflected in how you've presented the "objections" to BECCS.
Uusi podcast -- Ilmastonmuokkaus
1. osassa käymme läpi ilmastonmuokkauksen perusasioita ja termejä
#ilmasntonmuokkaus #geoengineering #smr #sai #ccs #ccu #beccs #beccu
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1. osassa käymme läpi ilmastonmuokkauksen perusasioita ja termejä
#ilmasntonmuokkaus #geoengineering #smr #sai #ccs #ccu #beccs #beccu
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Ilmastonmuokkaus, osa 1
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Siksi on erittäin tärkeää sekä levi
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October 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Uusi podcast -- Ilmastonmuokkaus
1. osassa käymme läpi ilmastonmuokkauksen perusasioita ja termejä
#ilmasntonmuokkaus #geoengineering #smr #sai #ccs #ccu #beccs #beccu
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#ilmasntonmuokkaus #geoengineering #smr #sai #ccs #ccu #beccs #beccu
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Many climate projections rely on a lot of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) for CO₂ removal (CDR). Usually the criticism is of the biomass part, but given the uncertainty in CCS, how can we be so confident about scaling BECCS?
October 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Many climate projections rely on a lot of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) for CO₂ removal (CDR). Usually the criticism is of the biomass part, but given the uncertainty in CCS, how can we be so confident about scaling BECCS?
I think this is backwards. Projections are tasked w/coming up with pathways that meet a temperature target given various constraints. They find a huge amount of BECCS would be required to meet those targets (given imposed constraints). They are not predictions that this amount of BECCS is viable.
October 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I think this is backwards. Projections are tasked w/coming up with pathways that meet a temperature target given various constraints. They find a huge amount of BECCS would be required to meet those targets (given imposed constraints). They are not predictions that this amount of BECCS is viable.
They could have use other CDR methods, including mCDR, but decided for BECCS and biochar for some reason.
October 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
They could have use other CDR methods, including mCDR, but decided for BECCS and biochar for some reason.
Have you been reading that chapter of my book again? 😁
October 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Have you been reading that chapter of my book again? 😁
Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plays the same role in aviation as CCS/BECCS/DACCS play for other fossil-fuelled sectors: more a stalling tactic than solution. Good engineers work on SAF, but CEOs/politicians/etc deliberately mis-sell their role in mitigation.
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Gatwick Expansion: A Direct Assault on Climate Commitments - Climate Uncensored
Comment on UK Government announcement of Gatwick Airport expansion by Professor Kevin Anderson and Dr. Lois Pennington, of Tyndall Centre, University of
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October 2, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plays the same role in aviation as CCS/BECCS/DACCS play for other fossil-fuelled sectors: more a stalling tactic than solution. Good engineers work on SAF, but CEOs/politicians/etc deliberately mis-sell their role in mitigation.
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gave the clam his own special headshot, added in BECCs and fossil hydrogen
September 24, 2025 at 7:17 AM
gave the clam his own special headshot, added in BECCs and fossil hydrogen
3/5 🙉 So-called ‘permanent removals' are risky, dangerous technofixes that claim to remove carbon from the atmosphere by combining destructive bioenergy or unproven direct air capture with the fossil fuel industry's favourite red herring, carbon capture and storage...
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September 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
3/5 🙉 So-called ‘permanent removals' are risky, dangerous technofixes that claim to remove carbon from the atmosphere by combining destructive bioenergy or unproven direct air capture with the fossil fuel industry's favourite red herring, carbon capture and storage...
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There is no other reason that a substack post from a year ago is the second hit for a search result on my name, but that The Breakthrough Institute is manipulating search-engine optimization techniques.
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September 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
There is no other reason that a substack post from a year ago is the second hit for a search result on my name, but that The Breakthrough Institute is manipulating search-engine optimization techniques.
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Jay Fuhrman at PNNL has been using GCAM to explore impacts & trade-offs of different CDR on the energy–water–land system; there is a clear interplay of DAC versus BECCS
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Diverse carbon dioxide removal approaches could reduce impacts on the energy–water–land system - Nature Climate Change
Carbon dioxide removal will be essential to reaching ambitious climate goals by offsetting hard-to-abate emissions and drawing down legacy CO2. A diverse portfolio of CO2 removal strategies, rather th...
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November 26, 2024 at 10:31 PM
Jay Fuhrman at PNNL has been using GCAM to explore impacts & trade-offs of different CDR on the energy–water–land system; there is a clear interplay of DAC versus BECCS
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Govt releases 2018 report looking at bioenergy & carbon capture & storage. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-potential-of-bioenergy-with-carbon-capture Study explicitly excludes biogas from AD "as these are not considered for BECCS at present". That won't go down well...
The potential of bioenergy with carbon capture
Report by Ricardo on the potential for deployment of bioe...
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February 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Govt releases 2018 report looking at bioenergy & carbon capture & storage. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-potential-of-bioenergy-with-carbon-capture Study explicitly excludes biogas from AD "as these are not considered for BECCS at present". That won't go down well...