A unified theory of left-wing causes | Power Line

[Steven Den Beste] Isn’t it interesting that no matter what the current global crisis is, according to leftists, the solution is always the same: a benevolent world dictatorship of the enlightened elite, and mass transfer of wealth from rich nations to poor nations.

That’s what they want to do about global warming. It’s what they wanted to do about overpopulation. It’s what they wanted to do about endangered species.

Tackling climate change: Deep storage | The Economist

Longannet was the last project standing from a government-funded competition launched in 2007 to build a British capture facility. The consortium behind it, comprising Scottish Power, National Grid and Shell, says its engineering design shows CCS is now technically feasible. But building the plant would cost up to £1.5 billion, the consortium predicted. This didn’t cover operating costs—around £2 billion over 15 years—or the price of storing CO2. Since the scheme overshot the government’s £1 billion budget, it pulled the plug.
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since capturing carbon itself uses a lot of energy—25-30% of a plant’s generation, by most estimates—if CCS technology is widely deployed then Britain will need even more of it.