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By Paul Homewood

h/t Philip Bratby

Why are UK taxpayers forced to pay for this pointless nonsense, when the rest of the world does not give a toss?

A ground-breaking project to suck carbon out of the sea has started operating on England’s south coast.

The small pilot scheme, known as SeaCURE, is funded by the UK government as part of its search for technologies that fight climate change.

There’s broad consensus amongst climate scientists that the overwhelming priority is to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the chief cause of global warming.

But many scientists also believe that part of the solution will have to involve capturing some of the gases that have already been released.

The project is trying to find whether removing carbon from the water might be a cost effective way of reducing the amount of the climate warming gas CO2 in the atmosphere.

SeaCURE processes the seawater to remove the carbon before pumping it back out to sea where it absorbs more CO2.

Read the full story here.

The report says the project will cost £3 million and will capture a miniscule 100 tonnes of CO2 a year. It also needs a lot of energy to pump the water and gases around. The process also involves adding first acids to help release the CO2, and then alkali to counteract the acid!

The £3 million is of course just to prove whether the process works or not- an ongoing annual operation would cost many times more.

As the UK emits about 800 million tonnes of CO2, including imported ones, 100 tonnes is neither here or there. Nor is there any prospect that such a project could be scaled up to cope with the billions of tonnes emitted worldwide.

This is one of fifteen similar projects, all of which will be paid for out of our taxes.

No doubt the scientists playing around with our taxes will enjoy themselves immensely, but surely there is a better use of this money?