Peter Jones: Brave indeed to count on this new future for energy

CARBON capture and storage, we are told by the Scottish and British governments, is the glowing new future, alongside renewables, for our energy industry. I hope they are right. But they might be wrong, and here's why.

The theory looks good. You stick some clever equipment on coal-fired power station chimneys which captures the that normally goes into the atmosphere. You then compress it, shove it into a pipe which takes it out to sea, and then stuff it down a hol...