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our society. differently. with our. sustainable this culture. which more takes on. the oil company a clean no what is doing something extraordinary on the slightly gas platform in the north sea it pumps millions of tons of carbon dioxide on to the sea that the greenhouse gas that threatens to warm the planet is simply bunkered away and ecuador has plans to sequester even more carbon dioxide just toward potential in the north sea is large enough to handle. substantial part of everything that
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comes out of your. can that work will ships with c o 2 soon be going to norway to sink our climate problem under the no see the technologies exist but do they really advance climate protection or are we just buying time. according to the intergovernmental panel on climate change we can only emit a maximum of around $300000000000.00 tons of c o 2 if the rising global temperature is to stay below $1.00 degrees celsius we're currently releasing around 42000000000 tonnes a year if we carry on as before the c o 2 budget would be used up in around 8 years by 2028. steps like closing coal fired power plants expanding the use of renewal. the energy sounds
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switching to electric cars will cause c o 2 emissions to decrease the more ambitious we are the more they go down but keeping the increase below 330000000000 tons seems a hopeless cause and it means they'll be more c o 2 that has to be removed from the air. here quote from you that we need reforestation we have to think about how to deal with our bonds but that won't be enough of this. are so when we are. even if we cut our c o 2 emissions and half every decade you will still have to remove several 100000000 tons of c o 2 from the atmosphere by the end of the century many on antonymous here it's why . we have to ask ourselves are we going to put it all done this once hardboard in. norway has a lot of experience removing and storing c o 2
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a clean or extracts natural gas on a peninsula near hammerfest the northernmost city in europe. and today our son jake is in charge of the plant he's proud that away has been found here to get rid of c o 2 but also to deliver an immense amount of fossil energy to europe. it is amazing. it's a lot of work and i'm so cute and i'm sure for us all $65.00 times for a whole year. and that's about 1.2. certainly as a. c o 2 is always a byproduct of natural gas extraction but the crucial thing here is that it flows back under the north sea the system is controlled. remotely from the command center
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there's no offshore platform one pipeline brings natural gas to the plant while another carries c o 2 back under the sea. in the stream calling him about 6 percent of the content is c o 2. this is quite unique about this because the remove the seal to the dryer then compress it push it back to a separate dresser or offshore. for permanent storage. almost. a year but the store permanently in the. short or long 43 kilometers of. the state owned company that makes norway one of the richest countries on earth would like to benefit from this experience a clean oil is in the process of establishing a new business model it calls the project northern lights as early as 2023 the
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1st ships will bring c o 2 from european industry to norway a new pipeline descends steeply from the coast then runs 110 kilometers along the sea floor to a point where the greenhouse gases are injected 2500 meters deep into the north sea sediment. was. responsible for the new field of business it's his job to lead the company into the future norway it's seen as an opportunity to actually continue to use steady sources in the north sea not the energy provider but as us storage for why they're for industrial c o 2. construction of the pumps a started and the 1st test drilling has been done the gigantic northern lights project is meant to pave the way for the large scale storage of c
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o 2 and its initial goal is to free europe's industries from greenhouse gases. if we succeed. and we have the opportunity to actually help clean up quite a few of the industries that have no other option. and we will allow these industries actually to to stay here in europe it's hard to see a bird without steel it's hard to see a future without cement they are essential and they need to meet our prices well. even if steel production switches to renewable energy sources there will always be an amount of c o 2 left over from the manufacturing process looking at german industry as a whole this remaining c o 2 accounts for around 7 percent of c o 2 emissions if europe is serious about climate protection these emissions must also be stopped. but is it realistic that freighters will bring c
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o 2 from germany to norway today there are only 4 ships like the froyo worldwide told me pedersen is responsible for loading the tanker. in the norwegian port of porsche going it takes on c. otu that was released during the production of fertilizes. talent. out of the gas is delivered to the food industry which uses it in beer and fizzy drinks for example or for cooling. today ca too is a commodity in small quantities. but. after the gas is being cooled and compressed the front to transport sits in liquid form the tank holds $1500.00 tons of c o 2 assuming that all of the carbon dioxide produced by german industry would be
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transported by ships like the foyer around a 100 of these tankers would have to travel from germany to norway every day. but that's not a problem for the specialist in c. already it will be just a cost calculation more whole. size of the ship from let's say. so. if the. technology. there were just to calculate the right size of the ship. so shipping c o 2 to norway is plausible but with those millions of tons of greenhouse gases released a proton to the ocean floor. this is the key. in eastern germany. professor didn't has many objections to the
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idea of sinking our greenhouse gases using technical processes he believes our priority should be to restore natural c o 2 stores such as books. we have to get away from the illusion that we can do business as usual and develop a technology that compensates. euston is dutch he's researched folks all over the world works on the intergovernmental panel on climate change and is known as the pete pope here used in tries to understand the origin and development of bugs in the meter thick layer of peat. these are actually my favorite people to taste. these water pete mosses they taste
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very fine often sulfurous sulfide like a. rock. and of course we have to use all of our senses to better understand nature you know to we always think that we need a lot of devices to measure things but we shouldn't forget as we can do an incredible amount with our eyes and ears our noses and our mouths is really forgotten. there are hardly any a dalit places like this left in germany 99 percent of bugs have been drained and thus destroying this is made them climate killers because all the pate that a bug like this stores is then gradually released into the atmosphere. part of course that's pure stored carbon half of this plant matter consists of carbon and that stored away then grows up layer by layer with us in the order of half a millimeter to one millimeter per year over thousands of years these layers and
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meters thick and contain a great deal of carbon that spew a climate protection school community which. this only applies to intact since almost all bugs in germany have been drained they give off a lot of greenhouse gases almost 6 percent of total emissions more than air traffic . and. we calculated that if we restore water to drain bogs we will be able to compensate for even more than the warming caused by c o 2 emissions since the industrial revolution. just so we're seeing is a very important step along with creating cooling systems for a world that's getting warmer anyway. that would be desirable but how would it be possible to restore boggs to their natural state in an industrialized country like germany.
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the largest oil and gas deposits in the north sea off the coast of starving i in no way the plans would mean pumping would continue here but in the opposite direction after those deposits are eventually exhausted but with the c o 2 from european industry really stay underground or will it become a time bomb i think we can use to example that oil and gas is in the ground and it stays there until we try to take it out. and what we're doing essentially is the reverse we are replacing c o 2 in the ground. the headquarters of the norwegian petroleum directorate is also here and stuff it makes decisions on the results is under the north sea issues drilling licenses and inspects rock formations.
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creature from east is a geologist who has long been searching in the drill core archives for the optimum sediment into which the 1st industrial carbon dioxide will be injected. we have been looking at possible storage options for many years i think i started with this in 2006 and one of the 1st just from our side was information because it's. it is good. that we're looking at what we can't touch it or feel it and feel it is sand with lots of poor space between the grains under the north sea the poorest of the sandstone are filled with water most of the injected c o 2 dissolved in it turning it into sparkling water the bigger the pools the easy at the gas can spread well contest with your own. just blowing it and see if it can
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and you can get some air through it. and this is quite good no i don't need to too much force on my blow to get the answer. to your hands information which is intended to absorb the c o 2 lines below the troll field a gas deposit that contains another 30 years supply of the fossil fuel in between a several layers of dense shale rock base of enhanced information. because of the above the cold there are some very nice. because of the gas production from us all feel the pressure is falling in this more shallow. means even if there should be a little bit. too from this one. it cannot escape from the under pressure in the overlying sense. so far everything has been going well with the storage of c
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o 2 in norway at the slightly gas drilling platform more than $1000000.00 tons of c o 2 have been pumped back underground every year for 25 years the northern lights project aims to start with 1500000 tonnes a year. if you look at the sheer magnitude of the problem globally there is a need for. a facility and we're talking hundreds of millions of tonnes per year that needs to be handled. combin capture and storage chilled c.c.'s is also being researched in germany the 2017 experiment was a success the c o 2 remained in the ground and that kept steam in eastern germany but it raised fears of earthquakes and escaping gases since then the story just c o 2 has been politically dead in gemini even the search is essentially for him put it. into it seemed. into the scene where i was also deeply involved in the safe
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because i would do it i would have gladly built the storage facility at any time without any worry was like a cold or negate us all. a lot of been worried if i put it on the wrong plates in the wrong way with the wrong target he saw liquor. functioning it's clear that countries like germany that emit a lot of c o 2 also have to take responsibility for it he says c.c.'s is indispensable is get upset so. you know there are estimates but in europe we have enough storage space for 1000 years for our c o 2 emissions or woman at the moment we have c.c.'s as a good alternative. if someone has a better one in 30 years all the better. but right now we have to improve the technology so that it's safe and is also controlled safely houses. france used in the top priority when it comes to climate protection is to return the bugs to their natural state and thus stop their c
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o 2 emissions. given they're taking its region near for stock on the eastern german coast he's researching how i really whetted gold can become the c o 2 store again in the long term. say bob was drained over the centuries this allowed oxygen to penetrate the bog soil and break it down that released a lot of carbon it was really flooded 20 years ago. jury in the period it was without water it was a system in decline. we've calculated that we lost 2.7 metres of peat at this location over the last few decades. and now we're looking to see whether we can not only stop these processes but also turn them around in order to get new peak formation of higher water levels could. the scale of the problem is vast half of northern germany has been drained to grow potatoes or corn or to graze
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animals a check 10 emits as much c o 2 in a single year 29 tonnes as a car does in a typical lifespan of 200000 kilometers. in hankow seen in the northwest landscape ecologist. is investigating what happens when a drained cold is flooded again he discovered that at 1st it produces methane another very dangerous greenhouse gas. to a few years the me same emissions decrease and then the bulb begins to store c o 2 over the long term. just extrapolated that for all areas that are currently drained globally. and you can
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see very clearly that the faster we return water to the barbs the better it is for the climate for the. drained make up 7 percent of arab will land in germany is it even possible to turn back time if we take climate protection seriously we have no alternative. but to get dusty when you understand that agriculture on bogues in germany causes annual climate damage of $7400000000.00 euros in the yard corresponds exactly to the total added value of the whole of agriculture then you have to ask yourself a place to water we doing here. there's an activity that causes $789000.00 euros damage per hectare is allowed and even subsidized. because of course these greenhouse gases that are in the cities must be compensated for somewhere else somebody else has to pay for it.
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it won't be easy to restructure and rakoczy and convince farmers to turn huge areas of farm land into wet bugs again. if we follow the norwegians plan for dealing with seo to europe will soon have lots of facilities like the claymates rude waste to energy plant. he is c.e.o. to is filtered from the flue gases this could serve as a model for other industry sectors that have not yet been able to make their production carbon neutral. yanni cobia because initiated the c.c.s. project at the waste to energy plant in 2014 i'm proud that i believe that it's meaningful to work with this building because this would actually make a difference and this is something we need to do in order to basically save save
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this world. because once to prove that it's possible to remove c o 2 from industrial emissions the waste to energy plant releases 400000 tons of c o 2 every year the small pilot plant can only collect 1000 tons of it a year but that shows that it can work always comes to the capture rates technology has proven to be extremely you have managed to capture more than 95 percent of the c o 2 from the pilot plant. when it comes to the energy use it's quite an idjit demanding. i that usually makes capturing c o 2 very expensive but that's not a. i'm here in the waste to energy plant there's an abundance of waste heat here. the big challenge is to make capturing c
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o 2 economical it share in the flue gases is only 5 to 10 percent it's important to find the right chemicals that combined and enrich the c o 2 they are then removed with heat and used again. because. it's quite costly today because we are at the very beginning of the developments there are only a few plants today and none of them are actually all in industrial sources the biggest challenge is that today the economy is not favoring handling of c o 2 it is a more attractive business voice simply to the c o 2. high price the c o $2.00 could make carbon capture and storage increasingly attractive since around top of the waste in this waste to energy plant consists of biomass c
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o 2 is even in directly extracted from the and because when this biomass grows it absorbs c o 2. if this is trapped during incineration and bunkered away it reduces the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. we've got c o 2 negative and we know that we need to develop c o 2 negative solutions in order to reach the paris agreement so waste to energy the waste energy business can be very important in the matter. so this is what the future of getting c o 2 out of the atmosphere could look like. houston is in his favorite place the calendar off medicaid's here you can see how peak than scroll in their natural. what state they don't really see 02 but instead absorb it and yet they can still be used for agriculture by growing reads
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a lot can be made out of these 3 grooves plastics bio gas. so we hope machines are reeds are an example of a plant that can be harvested sustainably without damaging with more sure. there are already many ideas about what can be cultivated in bogs in hand housing in western germany large areas of moss being cultivated for the 1st time on a regretted bog after all most is that the natural vegetation on people oaks can they be grown and harvested like any other field crop. the search for the best most is for agricultural cultivation is underway on the edge of the trial area i knew paga and her team grow muscles from all over the world here they aim to find the ones that grow as well and just quickly as possible in this way they also absorb c o 2 and turn the bugs into sinks with greenhouse gases however it will take more
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for most is to become a profitable product. so our long is a been strong direct payments to support and subsidies for farmers are not yet established it's almost irene why do you suppose but we can show here on the demonstration farm that this is actually feasible was much as well as what we can harvest into a large scale implementation really depends on political will on further technological development of and on finding the supermarkets and. most for want as a replacement for white pete pete was once made from us and horticulture needs huge amounts of it so much that germany's trained dogs and not enough and most of the peaches imported from the baltic states. in about 15 the. is the german peach will be completely exploited then an alternative will have to be found most is
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