Comments on: SCCS: carbon dioxide storage remains stable over 10,000 year timeframe https://www.newpower.info/2018/06/sccs-carbon-dioxide-storage-remains-stable-over-10000-year-timeframe/ Expert information for all those invested in the UK's energy future Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:08:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 By: Dr. A. Cannara https://www.newpower.info/2018/06/sccs-carbon-dioxide-storage-remains-stable-over-10000-year-timeframe/#comment-30352 Dr. A. Cannara Sat, 16 Jun 2018 20:53:42 +0000 http://www.newpower.info/?p=5213#comment-30352 Carbfix in Iceland and BSCP in WA do the better thing — return CO2 to limestone for many millions of years.

]]> By: Colin Megson https://www.newpower.info/2018/06/sccs-carbon-dioxide-storage-remains-stable-over-10000-year-timeframe/#comment-30273 Colin Megson Sat, 16 Jun 2018 13:08:36 +0000 http://www.newpower.info/?p=5213#comment-30273 It’s easy enough to demonstrate with simple arithmetic that, for every unit of electricity generated, the significant costs [capital; O & M; fuel;decommissioning] of the very latest and best of renewable technologies – offshore wind – is more than double the cost of nuclear power.

So now CCS looks good to go over the long term, but we need to know the costs! All of that gear to ‘extract’ the CO2, but more importantly, the massive infrastructure complex to get the CO2 from where it’s generated to where it’s stored.

And finally, if the government truly makes carbon targets the name of the game, without tarnishing technologies with any form of subsidy and with some consideration given to environmental footprint, nuclear power will have to take centre stage in long term, security-biased, energy policy.

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