Then proceeded to show a clean coal pure oxygen CCS plant in Germany where the liquid CO2 is trucked to a cap rock sequestration well.  "It could raise the cost of coal electricity 50%", was the tagline.

Better that government chooses technology to support with subsidies and mass production orders than let industry pursue full scale boondoggles like this.  Separating oxygen for combustion, extracting pollutants, then compressing CO2 into a liquid state, trucking it in a tanker truck and pumping it underground, only increasing the cost by 50%?

In what strange universe is this possible?  In the same corporate alternate reality where fuel farming, tar sands, and nuclear power are safe and cost effective?

Cap n/ trade, auctioned GHG permits, and carbon taxes will produce more capital/time wasting projects like this.

Mass production orders from government of renewable energy and conservation devices that can actually work are necessary to revive this economy.  government has to lead, just as it did during WW2 war production.  The last 3 decades have been wasted on "free" marketeerian wrangling based on nonsensical economic dogma.

Stop the dithering, fire the board room mates and execs, and get on with it.