It's time to accept carbon capture has failed - here's what we should do instead

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Why go to all that bother when you can just half-fill the kettle, asks Tom Baxter from the University of Aberdeen

For years, optimists have talked up carbon capture and storage (CCS) as an essential part of taking emissions out of electricity generation. Yes, build wind and solar farms, they have said, but they can't...

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