Sentences with phrase «while carbon capture technology»

While carbon capture technology is common, it can be expensive and, in most cases, requires extreme and precise conditions for the process to be successful.

Not exact matches

And while EPA designed the rule to accommodate fossil fuel plants equipped with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, the Barnett report said such plants are unlikely to find favor with investors unless Congress provides incentives to defray their higher construction and operation costs.

«We capture impurities» While Huaneng is leading the way in capturing carbon for coal - fired power plants, an industry that is traditionally tied with CCUS, the Chinese coal giant Shenhua is trying to adopt CCUS technology in a new sector: factories that produce chemicals out of coal.

While acknowledging risks in carbon capture and storage technology, Shenhua engineers view their project as more of a helper, saying that it can help collect data and assist drafting rules in this unregulated sector.

For the past decade, governments and utilities have been looking at how carbon capture technologies might be deployed to reduce emission of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, while enabling low - carbon electricity generation.

But every billion - dollar carbon - capture project, in the meantime, is raiding money that might otherwise go into basic research and development aimed at advancing solar technology or large - scale energy storage or other fields where breakthroughs could help lay the groundwork for a post-fossil global energy system — instead of providing a dicey Band - Aid to keep societies stuck on the coal rung of the heat ladder a while longer.

A technology developed at a national lab for improving carbon capture at power plants may be able to help craft breweries capture and reuse CO2 from their fermentation processes, while also slashing costs.

While ensuring the widespread deployment of carbon capture / storage technology does represent a significant challenge, it is more feasible than other policy options being offered by those who simply don't see any role for coal in our energy future.

The Breakthrough team warns that while deployment of today's technologies is vital, if money for deployment is included in the $ 150 - billion pie, that dangerously reduces the amount of money for laboratories pursuing vital advances on photovoltaics or energy storage and for big tests of technologies that must be demonstrated at large scale — like capturing carbon dioxide from power plants.

If U.S. companies can capitalize on carbon capture innovation, Friedmann said it may «create an export technology» as countries look to reduce emissions while maintaining those plants.

While renewables will play an important part, they must be seen as part of a portfolio of low emissions energy technologies (including nuclear, renewables and carbon capture and storage) that deliver increased energy efficiency.

The FUTURE Act would extend the 45Q tax credit and incentivize the development of carbon capture technologies, while also reducing emissions.

While there is a lot of skepticism over so - called «clean coal» technologies, which look to capture and store carbon emissions, a major government and industry initiative is about to take a small step closer to testing some of that controversial and cutting - edge technology.

... Working hand in hand with industry, we have an opportunity to use innovative technologies to capture natural gas to power more homes with cleaner American - made energy, while reducing methane emissions and cutting carbon pollution.»

Combining carbon capture technology in coal plants with the specific usage of CO2 in the oil sector means that capturing CO2 turns into a profitable business in itself while providing an effective incentive for reducing emissions.

Three technologies lead the pack for capturing the carbon dioxide in coal while also harnessing the energy.

The coal industry acknowledges that developing carbon capture and storage technology is imperative for the survival of their industry as a bridge fuel, but many major players continue to duck behind these trumped up charges while avoiding serious discussion of the environmental impacts of burning coal.

While total output from low carbon technologies, such as hydro, wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and nuclear power, has continued to grow, their share of global primary energy supply has remained relatively constant; fossil fuels have maintained their dominance and carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) has yet to be applied to electricity production at scale.

While there are questions about biofuels» ability to reduce carbon, combining carbon capture technology and biomass electricity generation could be a winner (Source: BP)

China has been «greening» for years, developing renewables and carbon capture technologies at breakneck speed, while also investing more aggressively in the region than Japan at a time when most multinational banks have restricted coal funding.

While we can ponder whether «clean coal» is an oxymoron, the carbon capture technologies that some power companies are starting to consider are very expensive.

So while we'd prefer an end to all coal, technologies to capture and store the carbon emissions from coal plants will just have to help us out in the meantime.

Increase investment in energy efficiency, renewables and carbon capture and storage technologies while eliminating subsidies for fossil - fuel industries.

But, unlike those environmentalists in wealthy countries who denounce the modern world while enjoying its blessings, the ecomodernists recognize that, though with today's technology it is impossible to lift the world's poorest out of poverty without destroying the environment, with the technologies of the future — next - generation nuclear and solar power, carbon capture and storage, high - intensity agriculture and aquaculture, and others — all things are possible.