Get Ready for Carbon Capture’s Second Coming: David Fickling

For those who’ve followed the energy transition over the past few decades, there’s one technology that is treated as much as a punchline as a serious industry: Carbon capture and storage.

A decade or so ago, many still thought it the best hope for decarbonizing the world’s power systems. CCS was “the Google and Intel of the energy world,” the Atlantic magazine declared in a 2010 cover story that predicted solar and wind would never get above 10% of power supply.

In the following decade, it was renewables that boomed while CCS went bust. Wind and solar accounted for 39% of generation in Germany in the ...