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George Monbiot rightly eviscerates the government’s foolish plan to waste nearly 22bn on the carbon capture and storage venture.
But he only hints at a worse aspect of the plan: that it is entirely unproven to work on the scale needed to be effective.
A study of the health and climate impacts of carbon capture, in the journal Energy and Environmental Science , found that only 10.8% of one such plant's CO2-equivalent emissions and 10.5% of the CO2 removed from the air is captured over 20 years .
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