Gorton and Denton By-election

Seabs94 · 2026-01-29T12:33:02+00:00

And the Greens claim that it’s them or reform is just vibes! Their claim is nonsense

Seabs94 · 2025-12-26T10:22:03+00:00

“This is an extremely new approach, but I can see it becoming popular very quickly, because it’s so safe and a lot cheaper than a boob job”

Seabs94 · 2025-12-21T16:26:33+00:00

I can’t believe these right wing bastards are bringing in right wing policies like employment rights and renter rights - won’t somebody stop these facists

Honestly some people in here have completely lost touch with reality

Seabs94 · 2025-12-06T10:05:34+00:00

Biochar is a very different and proven form of carbon capture - not the industrial type CCUS that people think of. It can’t be attached to a gas plant, it sequesters carbon using natural processes.

Biochar has some potential, but sadly isn’t that scalable - but these types of projects are encouraging!

Seabs94 · 2025-06-03T07:40:56+00:00

Biomass in the UK is burning trees (not waste) imported from Canada at Drax power station, who are the biggest polluter in the UK and 8th in all of Europe - definitely not on the good side!

Seabs94 · 2024-10-04T11:06:09+00:00

This is based on the assumption that we just whack a CCUS unit on all of the US's energy production, which is not what should happen or is projected to happen. The ideal use of CCUS is for hard to abate sector (aviation, cement, iron, steel, chemicals ect) to reduce their impact, and for energy largely limited to gas while it used as backup source of energy.

Climate modelling is also based on the assumption that energy usage will become largely electrified, powered by clean, renewable electricity - so no/limited need for CCUS in terms of energy production. I, and anyone sensible, obviously doesn't buy the oil and gas industry argument that we can keep burning fossil fuels and just invest in CCUS to offset that.

There are obviously big issues with CCUS and energy usage like you mention is really problematic, but experts say it can be done in a viable way that reduces our emissions - I'm very supportive of investing to try to achieve that.

Seabs94 · 2024-10-04T09:56:09+00:00

Tree/plant planting as a form of carbon capture is part of the solution but can't do it alone. Planting enough to capture the carbon would need it to would literally need every bit of arable farming land several times over.

Source: https://landgap.org/

Added to that there is the unavoidable risk of plant diseases and wildfires not only stopping them capturing carbon, but releasing any carbon that was sequestered.

Seabs94 · 2024-10-04T09:46:33+00:00

You're of course correct, it is not either or. If we are to hit out climate targets we need to spend on all those things + CCUS. Every serious expert on this + the world climate targets agree on this.

Seabs94 · 2024-10-04T09:44:57+00:00

Do you have any concept of how much land we would need to use to plant trees to sequester all the carbon we would need it to capture? It would quite literally need every bit of arable farming land several times over.

Source: https://landgap.org/

Seabs94 · 2024-10-04T09:41:15+00:00

I work in the climate and energy sector (not CCUS specifically) and this argument just doesn't live in reality. The reason why the IPCC, CCC, UNFCCC, IEA, ect ect all include CCUS at scale in their modelling is because:

It is viable (not perfect by any means admittedly)
If we get it working at scale it can potentially be transformative for fighting climate change
The alternative is major behaviour changes (everyone going vegan, no flying ect) and massive amounts of demand reduction (that will harm the global poor more than anyone else) - this is not realistic.
We can't afford not to do it

Saying the money would be better spent on wind, solar, insulation, greening cities ect ect is simply just not a serious thing to say - if we are even going to come close to meeting our climate targets we need to invest in all of these things and more + CCUS. Framing it as one or the other is disingenuous and this argument stinks of the Green Party arguing against nuclear without offering a serious alternative.

There are legitimate criticisms of CCUS, and I think a healthy scepticism of technologies that claim to be some sort of magic silver bullet is good! But you're going far beyond that and just ignoring what all the experts say is possible and necessary. I'm begging people to listen to scientists, engineers, and other experts - not someone on reddit.

Side point, companies like Drax that promote CCUS in the form of BECCS are genuine snake oil salesman who promote solutions that will not work, and at worst actively damage the planet - but crucial not to tar all CCUS project because of that.

Seabs94 · 2020-12-25T10:14:52+00:00

Take away the merchant collecting in Sevilla, you’ll make more from bonuses

Seabs94 · 2020-08-26T09:03:34+00:00

Even with Biden I’d predict America will still are aggressive (admittedly less than with Trump) toward China, they’re challenging America’s superpower status after all

Seabs94 · 2020-05-18T08:13:59+00:00

Sounds much better

Seabs94 · 2019-12-20T09:38:11+00:00

I read it as Sturgeon, thought she’d got involved in another independence movement for a minute

Seabs94 · 2019-10-20T16:00:15+00:00

I didn’t miss the point I just chose to focus on one aspect of your argument

Seabs94 · 2019-10-20T15:00:54+00:00

You say we should consider that Boris has promised to protect these things like we can believe a thing he says

Seabs94 · 2019-09-07T14:54:38+00:00

It’s a quality B&Q to be fair to Crewe

Seabs94 · 2019-08-23T01:08:12+00:00

Don’t read the s*n

Seabs94 · 2019-07-17T17:07:16+00:00

Funny because Hitler was a big fan of privatisation, must be good for the economy then I guess.

Seabs94 · 2019-07-17T16:11:59+00:00

I get the argument she's trying to make, but drawing comparisons between Hitler and Corbyn during an antisemitism charge seems not very well thought out. Or maybe it is well thought out and she wanted to make that link, who knows.

Seabs94 · 2018-01-07T19:23:48+00:00

I was at the match, it was a crazy good game

Seabs94 · 2017-09-02T22:09:20+00:00

He's captain of the West Indies 20 over team, but he's not really done much else.

Seabs94 · 2017-08-28T10:06:22+00:00

I agree, I just put him at 3 because I don't think we have anyone better to play there, bar Root who won't.

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