Keir Starmer pledges £22billion for UK carbon capture projects in Merseyside and Teesside
The Prime Minister has pledged nearly £22billion in funding to develop projects to capture and store carbon emissions from energy, industry and hydrogen production.
While it has long been championed as part of the solution - with Energy and Security and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband first announcing plans to develop carbon capture projects for power plants in 2009 during the last Labour government - and it uses well-tested technology, little progress has been made on it in the UK.
Of course he is just a little crazy, poor sweet, but it is a very profitable kind of craziness, so one need not drench oneself in tears about it. One of the secrets of a successful life is to know how to be a little profitably crazy.’
Josephine Tey - To Love and Be Wise (1950)
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22 billion? That number seems oddly familiar....
Ah! I remember now! It's the amount of money that rushes in to fill a black hole in your budget, once you've spent it on overseas scams, windmills, and protecting mosques. Its government-speak for "a lot", and I wouldn't be surprised if Lord Alli's contributions, when added up...
"...and it uses well-tested technology..."
Citation needed.
Sam - yes it is oddly familiar. Some focus group probably worked out that it's the biggest big number they can use without being too big to be believable. As you say, it's government-speak for "a lot".
Peter - yes, as the technology mostly seems to be at a prototype or demonstration stage, "well-tested technology" does need a citation. Plus a citation about the effect on global temperature - zero would be my guess.
O/T: I did enjoy your recent joke of addressing everyone as "Sir". What we need, I've decided, is a title that bears the meaning "Man who pays for his own trousers".
dearieme - turning it around towards someone who doesn't pay for his own trousers we could possibly make use of acronym -
Sir Keir Starmer KC GT where GT is Gifted Trousers.
Look at the bottom of his trouser legs. Was the previous occupant six inches taller? Of the trousers, I mean, not Number 10.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/number10gov/53837066630/in/photostream/
dearieme - hmm - those trousers are surely not his. Maybe he once told Lord Alli he's six feet two and Lord Alli decided to play a little joke on him. Or maybe Labour politicians have to favour ill-fitting clothes, especially suits, so they don't look like Tory toffs.
Two birds with one stone: Sir Keir Starmer KC SOT where SOT is Sans Own Trousers.
dearieme - makes me AK Haart OT.
Twenty Two? Alliterational with Two Tier.
And when all the naughty carbon is captured and forced down the black hole, for eternity, all the oxygen, double the mass (or weight , for the non STEM folk) will be used for good things like helping people, and the rest of the animal realm breathe when all plants die for want of nasty, nasty Carbon Dioxide. Eugh.
Of course drilling deep holes deep into the Earth's crust and injecting fluid is nothing like catastrophic fracking, oh dear no. And of course what is injected will never escape and suffocate everything that breathes.
And that is not the reason why all this good work will take place well away from London. So, haud yer wheesht.
The extra leg length is to allow for kneeling without exposing freebie socks.
Good point: you may be occasionally over the top whereas Two-Tier may occasionally be well lubricated.
Doonhamer - what seems to be missing from the buried naughty carbon 'debate' is how long it has to stay there. The assumption seems to be forever, or is the plan to squirt it back into the atmosphere when the next ice age comes along? A strange mix of lunacy and racketeering.
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