But there's a far more fundamental flaw here:
If you took those all those nice megawatt produced by those nice windmills (let's pretend that they're put somewhere which actually makes sense...), and used it to run a nice little train instead of all those commuter cars and long- and medium-haul trucks in the picture... you wouldn't need the scrubbers in the first place.
This is a general feature of most of these "carbon capture" schemes that pop up in the press: You could reduce net emissions with far less fuss and bother by simply using existing industrial-scale energy saving technology.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
Of course, as long as they are viewed simply as an excuse for not taking serious action (rather than as a minor part of a larger overall campaign), they will never be constructed in any meaningful quantity. Which is almost as "good."
