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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ketan@climatejustice.social ("Ketan Joshi") wrote:

Fun fact: the vast majority of all carbon re-captured by CCS is used to dislodge more oil from nearly-depleted oil fields

https://thepoint.com.au/off-the-charts/260113-part-two-the-false-promise-of-carbon-capture-and-storage

Stacked area chart showing that the vast majority of captured CO2 has been used to extract more fossil fuels, with the red area (used for fossil extraction) rising sharply since ~2010 while the thin green area (stored underground) remains small from 1996–2024.