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In Illinois, a massive taxpayer-funded carbon capture project fails to capture about 90 percent of plant’s emissions (news.oilandgaswatch.org)
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[–] Nighed@sffa.community 2 points 7 months ago

So this is that 90% of a factories CO2 emissions are not being captured by it's on site carbon capture facility. (Not that the carbon capture plant is releasing emissions).

On my (quick) read of the article, I don't think it said why that was. Was the plant at capacity, or did it have headroom, but the CO2 was just not being effectively captured to be stored?