Some flaws associated with carbon capture and storage:
- One flaw that comes with the idea of CCS is that it is economically straining, if there were a good way to develop this technology it would be very expensive, probably more so than to actually find more efficient ways of energy besides coal and other fossil fuels that are burned.
- Another flaw is that there is little true knowledge about how this technology works, and whether it would achieve its goal of reducing carbon emissions and how efficient it will be for reducing coal depletion.
- There is also the dilemma of trying to find locations to store this, because surely most people would not want it to be stored underneath their towns or cities and it is still questionable how much we can truly store.
- With this technology it could lead to the wrong assumption that with much of this carbon getting stored that they can use more coal, which during coal mining methane, another carbon based pollutant, is released and may not be as successful of an idea based on cost that they believed.
The Fatal flaw:
- The biggest issue that seems to arise from the discussion of CCS is the fact that there could be leakage and even with little release into the atmosphere can cause serious harm to species and would detract from the intended effect of reducing carbon emissions.
SOURCES:
http://www.rtcc.org/2012/10/02/carbon-capture-and-storage-time-to-bury-the-myth/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage#Environmental_effects
