While some events at the Climate People's Summit have difficulty attracting attendees, all seats were taken, even in the last rows, when today's expert speaker in the field of carbon capture and storage (CCS), market manager from the Danish Technological Institute Jan Boyesen, was on stage. He made one thing very clear from the very beginning.
- CCS, everyone is talking about it, and the government has allocated an awful lot of money for it, says Jan Boyesen to the crowded tent, where even the standing room is taken.
Whether CCS is necessary is the second central question he addresses.
- If we had chosen green from the start, CCS would not have been necessary, but now the level is so high in the atmosphere. That's why we are now at a point where there is no question that it is necessary. It is a question of how much we should use CCS, says the expert.
The capture part itself is part of what is being worked on.
- We are working on smart and cheap ways to capture the CO2, including at point sources. Maybe we will pull it out of the air in the future, but that is very energy-intensive, says Boyesen, before turning to the part of transporting it in pipelines that will carry the CO2 out to empty oil wells in the North Sea:
- Typically, you will compress the CO2 until it becomes liquid and can be transported out to the oil fields. We are also working to ensure that it actually stays underground.
A new export success
There is even work being done to make CCS something that can be used in places other than the Western world.
- We are looking at making it cheaper and more scalable, so that it is also something that can be used in developing countries, he says.
However, it is not here and now, because there is a lot of work ahead.
- The technology must be further developed first. The government has allocated 38 billion DKK for it, and that is massive, it is said.
But the development of CCS is something that could be an export success for the country.
- For the time being, Denmark will play an important role in this, because we have a subsoil that is porous and suitable for storage. It's like with the wind turbines, which weren't profitable in the beginning either, says Jan Boyesen and turns to another necessary one at the end:
- We're also looking at creating infrastructure for this here in Denmark, because we have this good underground for storage.
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