Part Four / What We’ve Done About It

4.15 The Technical Hitch

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  1. In 2020 the industry sector was responsible for 8,736 megatonnes International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2021, October 2021, https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2021.

    methods such as electrifying industrial processes Ibid.; International Energy Agency, Energy Technology Perspectives 2020, September 2020, https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-technology-perspectives-2020.

  2. ‘This is our moon landing’ Orange, R., ‘Norway drops “moon landing” carbon project’, The Local, 20 September 2013, https://www.thelocal.no/20130920/norway-drops-moon-landing-carbon-project/.

    a blistering 1.7 billion kroner over budget ‘Norway scraps “moon landing” carbon capture project’, Sydney Morning Herald, 20 September 2013, https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/norway-scraps-moon-landing-carbon-capture-project-20130921-2u63u.html.

  3. the required investment had increased by 912 million kroner Norum, H., ‘Milliardsprekk for “Langskip”’, NRK, 8 November 2021, https://www.nrk.no/norge/varsler-langskip-sprekk-pa-nesten-1-milliard-1.15721955.

    ‘Unless the parties agree to continue’ Ibid.

    the Klemetsrud waste facility’s long delayed CCS plant Peters, G., ‘Oslo’s climate budget – leading the way?’, Center for International Climate Research, 30 September 2016, https://cicero.oslo.no/en/posts/news/oslos-climate-budget-leading-the-way.

  4. CCS fails so frequently Abdulla, A., et al., ‘Explaining successful and failed investments in U.S. carbon capture and storage using empirical and expert assessments’, Environmental Research Letters, 16 (1), 2021: Article 014036, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abd19e.