Are plans for a carbon-negative power plant too costly to be worth it?

By Adam Vaughan

UK power agency Drax’s plan to remodel a biomass energy plant within the north of England into the world’s first carbon-negative energy station is operating into sturdy pushback.

By 2027, Drax hopes to retrofit its plant close to Selby so it may be used for ‘bioenergy with carbon seize and storage’ (BECCS), a course of by which the agency will develop timber that take away tens of millions of tonnes of CO2 from the air, burn them for energy, seize the ensuing CO2 and pipe it beneath the bedrock of the North Sea.

BECCS …