Carbon Capture
The Bottom Line
BBC
4.6 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Can carbon capture save the planet - and make money? The government has announced millions of pounds of funding to support the UK's emerging carbon capture industry. How will it change our futures?
Evan Davis speaks to the head of The East Coast Cluster, a project awarded some of this financial support, alongside other industry leaders, to understand whether this revolutionary technology could solve our climate change problems, or whether it is another way to evade our environmental obligations.
GUESTS
Andy Lane, vice president (CCUS), BP & head of East Coast Cluster Esin Serin, UK policy analyst, The Grantham Institute of Climate Change Olivia Powlis, head of UK office, Carbon Capture and Storage Assosciation Julie Golsalvez, chief marketing officer, Climeworks
PRODUCER Lucinda Borrell
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | Hello and welcome to the programme. |
| 0:08.4 | It would be nice if we could somehow take carbon out of the air as easily as we can put it in. |
| 0:14.4 | Trees will do that job, but it just takes a lot longer to grow one than to burn one. |
| 0:19.4 | However, there is a young industry devoted to reversing |
| 0:22.6 | the familiar human pattern of taking stuff out of the ground and pushing it into the air. |
| 0:27.7 | Carbon capture, and it is already happening. But today, we're going to look at what kind of business |
| 0:32.8 | this can be. I have four guests with me. First up, let's take a trip abroad because I'm joined by |
| 0:39.7 | Julie Golsalves, chief marketing officer for Climbworks. It is a company running Orca, which is a direct |
| 0:47.9 | carbon capture plant in Iceland. Julie, tell us more about what is going on there at Orca in Iceland. |
| 0:57.0 | So we recently launched Oka. Oka is the first and largest direct capture and storage plant. |
| 1:04.1 | So what happened there is really the epitome of technological carbon removal, so to say. |
| 1:09.5 | So the air is filtered. The CO2 is filtered out of the air, |
| 1:14.1 | and then it's mixed with water and it's injected underground, where it's rapidly mineralized |
| 1:19.9 | via the car fix process in that case in Iceland. And as such, the CODU is permanently removed |
| 1:26.0 | out of the year and stored. |
| 1:29.0 | And Julie, it is actually working. |
| 1:30.9 | You're actually doing it? |
| 1:32.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.5 | It's been inaugurated and it's now fully operating to serve our first customers. |
| 1:38.0 | So individuals, we have over 9,000 people who are today using the Climbus Camel Removal Service as well as |
| 1:46.0 | pioneering companies. |
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