Energy transition: Why we won't see a large-scale CCS industry in Germany any time soon
Pao-Yu Oei (left) and Philipp Herpich are investigating the phase-out of fossil fuels in the FossilExit research group.
Friedrich Merz is pinning his climate policy hopes on CCS and CCU – processes that have failed for decades, even under CDU-led coalitions. Their failure cannot be explained by ideology, as the chancellor claims, but is rooted in the technology itself: Merz’s faith in CCS is an illusion.
