CO2-Endlager in Meeresboden: Europas Kampf against Klimawandel

Carbon dioxide (CO₂), if you inform the Nutzung fossil seeker Brennstoffe, if you are occupied with an elegant story about climate problems. In Hafen Rotterdam in the Netherlands a project is being carried out that will lead to a Hoffnungen, says aber auch, where the limits of the complex Unterfangens lie. The technique heist Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), also CO₂ insert and the end.

3000 meters below the Meeresspiegel

There are shy or obvious pipelines in Europe’s largest port, which form Gelände that riesige Fläche von 120 Quadratkilometers umfasst. The Rohrleitung is 30 kilometers long and passes through the Hafen and the Nordsee führen. We travel 20 kilometers in the Nordsee to explore Gasfeld. Dort became the CO₂ from 2026 round 3000 meters under the sea mirror were stored. After 15 years the end of the journey is over, then the high flight is completed and was closed. The investments in the project called Porthos pay 1.3 billion euros.

There is a man who had a partner, together with Hans Meeuwsen, director of the project project. There are activities connected to the energy company ENB, the Dutch Gasnetwork operator Gasunie and the Port of Rotterdam, three companies in the state. In the emission of CO₂ and Porthos knowledge trades with the Erdöl and Gas firms Shell, Exxon Mobil, Air Liquide and Air Products. I am involved in the production of manufacturing products, and refineries. There is no kohlen dioxide involved. 14 Since the gases are used in the Netherlands, they are also widely available in the Netherlands. Porthos soll helfen, diesen Anteil um 10 Prozent zu reduce.

Protests from the residents

Porthos is the largest CCS project in the EU that has been found in construction. The Netherlands have once viewed a CO₂-Lager zu verwirklichen. It has been 15 years since the city of Barendrecht joined the Nahe von Rotterdam.

A part of the population can take place every day again. If you use the technique, you can appeal to a real estate and buy a real estate. The first steps on the way to a water flow of the Trinkwasser or the Risikos of Erdbeben. The initiators went from the project to an even greater goal, although a new infrastructure project has emerged in Europe.

I am a Rotterdam harbour day that does not need Widerstand. There are no critical critical questions asked, the infrastructure is partly available, a secondary pipeline does not bother anyone here. The harbour is a well-oiled logistics sector, the roads, canals, cranes and leads only have one purpose: to transport goods.

Andernorts has put a CCS project on a different stand. A care of a brainchild of four years is about an ambitious plan like Porthos: the Delta-Rhein-Corridor, a pipeline, the Rotterdam with the German industrial areas that connect. Geplant ist hier, CO₂ in the direction of the North Sea to the slates and water materials of the industrial company in the continent. It is another fact that the Pipeline runs through time.

CCS-Gründungsfieber lives in Scandinavia every day. Vorreiter ist Norway, wed 1996 the first CO₂-End bearing ent positions are. Initiative war das Rohstoffunternehmen Statoil (heute: Equinor). This means that you can enjoy gas in the Nordsee with a view to the surroundings and into CO₂-Anteil. Some of the knowledge will disappear and sink into more soils.

Environmentally friendly measures

Statoil has a financial interest in CO₂ If you sign up, the Company will have to pay higher environmental taxes here. Today will consider Norway as a specialist for CCS positioning.

Denmark has neither greater nor faster ambitions. Teure Pipelines are not able to use Voraussetzung. Projects in both states see each other in CO₂-Transport with Lastwagen and Schiffen in the Lagerstätten vor. The city of Zurich will provide economic assistance for the future.₂that was recorded in the Clearance. Pro Ton eingespartem CO₂ there are high transport costs here, such as Kritiker. Trotzdem has the Stimmbürger am Wochenende dem Project-zugestimmt.

The four stories of Porthos have put an end to the financial situation of Anreiz, CO₂ in the Nordsee zu versenken. You can use the gas in large quantities to ensure that the EU Emissions Trading System ETS is implemented. In the Rotterdam CCS-Projekt it is worth taking care of the four firms, when the Absonderung und Lagerung von CO₂ the best is if the CO₂-Price. That is the time of Fall, said Porthos-Chief Meeuwsen. It is a question of more than the state of the additional costs.

“CCS is essential if the climate seriousness is not there”, thinks Wilfried Rickels of the Kiel Institute for World Economics. It is unclear how the EU will reduce emissions – how the member states will be abolished. In 2040, the EU went from the Treibhausgasen in comparison with 1990 to sink 90 percent. Until 2050, the EU will be net “climate neutral”.

The Staatsbund will not reduce emissions either – that will not be possible. «Certain industrial sectors, and chemistry, were always CO₂ “extinguish,” says Rickels. Part of the Treibhausgase must also be brought to the Verschwinden – CCS is aware of the technical knowledge, where CO₂ konzentriert entsteht wie in Rotterdamer Hafen.

More trees means more technology?

Every day you look at the «Business-Case» with Direct Air Capture (DAC) when you try to reach one of the Schweizer Firma Climeworks. At dieser Technik van CO₂ fernab der Quellen aus der Luft abgesogen. I am not happy with the CCS trade, it is a more disappointing technique: In Rotterdam, Firmen das CO₂ When the device is plugged into the enclosure and the DAC is turned on, it becomes difficult to make a small mixing of gases.

Climeworks involves three layers in the island, with the youngest ever ending in a backbreak. Die 2021 in Betrieb genommene Installation Orca hat im vergangen Jahr nur ein Drittel der gekündigten Menge des Treibhausgases entsorgt. The Climeworks chef Jan Wurzbacher sees all the possibilities for improvement, whoever says “NZZ am Sonntag”.

Der Porthos-Chef Meeuwsen mocked the weil über die CO₂-Staubsauger, wenn man ihn darauf anspricht. Man könne stattdessen auch Bäume pflanzen, die naehmen ebenfalls CO₂ up, my opinion.

There are problems with troubleshooting CO technical troubleshooting₂-Absorption. Allerdings können Pflanzen auch in Brand geraten or rotten, CO₂ is then again freed. At CCS and at DAC while the gas is pressed into a high pressure every day, is also for a longer way, so it is worth using the Hoffnung der Promotoren.

Critics always point out that a fall has occurred in Norway. When Gasfeld released the pressure on the end bearing in one of the following project phases in 2008, it is clear that files were deleted.

Rickels and most scientists stop technical knowledge for unanswered ideas, which makes the development of technology possible. There was a man who stopped at the Technik who made a mistake, with Rickels. The risk of earth is considered small by researchers, so is the risk of water contamination. The climb that is outside the door takes a while higher.