Hello everyone. I am doing another seminar in the Sussex Energy Group’s Energy & Climate series.
On Tuesday 5th November from 1300hrs to 1400. It is free to attend, you just have to register.
It is based on work I’ve been doing since my book (did I mention I have a book out?) and tries to gaze into the crystal ball to see what might be coming… Keen to hear people’s comments, questions, thoughts, critiques..
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The blurb for the seminar is here
Carbon Capture and Storage has been proposed and nearly with us for two decades. The rationale has shifted from saving the coal industry to industrial purposes and now the production of ‘blue hydrogen’ and even greenhouse gas removals. It is currently in the midst of one of its periodic hype cycles.
The UK has had a series of proposed pilot projects, crashed competitions and a recently repeated promise of $22bn in funding for construction of CCS infrastructure. This has raised the political temperature, and the fragile consensus in favour of it may not survive. How much can the last 20 years tell us about the next 5? Drawing on his recent book and developments since it was written, Marc Hudson will offer:
- some metaphors for thinking about CCS (Schrodinger’s Cat and the T-1000 Terminator)
- a very brief overview of the history to date and present status – both globally and in the UK
- some possible scenarios around the politics, economics and physics for the UK in the coming 5 years
- a set of important tasks for “non-captured” intellectuals and academics in the coming months and years.
I will talk for no more than 30 minutes, meaning that there’s at least 25 minutes for question and answer
You can see my previous two SEG seminars, from 2022.
March 8 2002: – Industrial Decarbonisation: where does it come from, where might it go?
https://sussex.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Embed.aspx?id=a5f79422-ed15-4d08-8c3b-ae5200f9915e
September 27 2022: Dead and Buried: How Carbon Capture and Storage was brought back to life (again) –
https://sussex.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=419d2d87-f39e-417d-8cb2-af25009f28c9
You can see the other stuff I have written about CCS here.
You can see the spreadsheet of recent articles (mostly but not entirely about the UK) and CCS here.