https://politico.eu/article/europe-is-spending-millions-to-trap-…
The EU is promising storage will eventually be available — but manufacturers in Europe’s poorer regions are worried it won’t be within reach.
Since 2020, Vuk, who sits on the board of the Salonit cement factory in Slovenia, has been plotting to get in on the ground floor of an industry poised to boom in the coming years: carbon capture.
It’s one of the ways carbon-spewing factories like the one Vuk helps run are supposed to keep operating in a greener future.
There’s just one problem: Vuk has nowhere to store any carbon he traps at the plant.
The conundrum is a small example of a mounting problem for Europe as it races to establish the infrastructure needed to hit climate neutrality by 2050. The EU is heavily encouraging companies to invest in projects and technology that can either suck carbon from the air or prevent it from getting there in the first place. But that also means finding places to store all of that carbon.
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