Sentences with phrase «about carbon capture»

I've read a fair amount about carbon capture and storage, but I have very little technical expertise, or scientific expertise to be perfectly frank, and let's throw in mathematical knowledge for good measure.

Although the coal industry talks about carbon capture and storage (CCS), it is too expensive and there are not enough places to store the captured CO2, Smith told IPS.

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If one wants to argue about carbon capture, he should look at the thermodynamics of it, that's where one can make the point that it makes little sense.

Commuting in this morning on the boat, I was struck by a Guardian article on a new McKinsey report (pdf) about carbon capture and storage:

Jeffery Ball, Wall Street Journal reporter: I think there's a reality check going one about carbon capture and storage right now.There was huge, rosy optimism about carbon capture and storage.

The last asks about carbon capture and sequestration, which Forkin says is technically feasible but not commercially viable.

These estimates are based on extrapolating what we know about carbon capture and storage (CCS) at power plants, where CO2 levels in flue gases are much higher than in ambient air.

In the accompanying text, they document the assumptions (particularly about carbon capture, land - use emissions and sink enhancement) that lead to the alternative emissions and concentration pathways shown.

We used to write about carbon capture and sequestration.

Meanwhile, we hear continually about carbon capture and storage which is notable mainly for the fact it produces no energy and increases the fuel cost per MWH.

What about carbon capture and storage?

Smith and Croyle had read some of Schrag's papers about carbon capture and sequestration, or CCS — a technique for keeping globe - warming carbon dioxide out of the air by burying it — and they were ready to put it into action.

«Unless you commercialize it, it's not going to contribute,» Kellie Caught of the World Wildlife Fund - Australia said about carbon capture technology needed to reduce coal plant emissions.

One of the common expressed worries about carbon capture is that injected CO2 will eventually leak from its resting spot, offsetting climate benefits or creating health risks.

One of the premier's most vocal right - wing backers has registered to lobby the government about its carbon capture and storage laws on behalf of the province's largest greenhouse gas producing firm.

Not exact matches

While it's always interesting to know about the top runners, renewable energy companies in various growth stages will become more important as government funding for research and development related to energy efficient, emissions reduction and carbon capture decreases.

In addition to carbon capture and storage laws, Mr. Hill's registration filing states he's speaking to the government about natural gas infrastructure projects, harmonizing provincial and federal greenhouse gas reporting regulations and cap and trade issues.

«They do capture carbon dioxide, but they need to be heated to about 140 degrees Celsius to release it for permanent storage.

As technologies to capture carbon improve, some are already thinking about what we will do with all that CO2.

Coal companies should take a proactive strategy and talk about solutions, such as carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) technology, Reavey said.

A demonstration power plant is about to fire up in Tianjin to create syngas, while the UK has relaunched a carbon - capture - and - storage plant competition

Concerns about the costs of carbon capture and storage (CCS) persist.

For the consumer, the extra cost of carbon capture would therefore amount to about $ 0.04 per kilowatt - hour.

The price would be roughly comparable to that of capturing carbon dioxide at power plants and storing it underground, which would eventually cost about $ 200 per ton of carbon, according to a recent study from Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, compared with about $ 400 per ton of carbon for the forests.

A carbon capture and sequestration proposal in Greenville, Ohio, stalled in 2009 amid loud objections from local residents about the possibility of leakage and depressed property values.

Your otherwise informative «Instant expert» article about new technologies for carbon capture (2 April) missed some important numbers.For instance, how...

About 15 carbon capture or carbon storage projects are up and going.

And unlike forests that hold carbon for about 60 years then release it again, seagrass ecosystems have been capturing and storing carbon since the last ice age.

Switching tacks here, what about carbon dioxide capture and storage?

As promising as it sounds, there are many uncertainties about whether solidifying carbon dioxide emissions could be a viable part of a climate strategy, said Bert Metz, a fellow at the European Climate Foundation who is unaffiliated with the study and was the lead author of a 2005 IPCC special report on carbon capture.

«It's about equivalent to the best MOFs for carbon capture, but our material is far more selective.

An up - to - date coal plant costs about $ 3,000 a kilowatt, but charges levied on carbon dioxide emissions, or extra equipment to capture the gas instead, could add substantially to that.

When you hear Dave and Bill Gates talk about CCS, that's carbon capture and storage; TerraPower is a nuclear reactor design company.

But with that see - saw battle going on in the tropics, the result was that overall, tropical forests» impact on atmospheric carbon dioxide was a wash - deforestation emitted about the same amount that was captured in forest growth.

SABIC affiliate United Jubail Petrochemical Company hopes to capture about 1,500 tons a day of carbon dioxide from ethylene plants, and use it in SABIC petrochemical plants, Reuters reports.

He said operational costs need to fall to about $ 100 per ton of captured carbon for the technology to be scalable.

The rock dust industry may be as much about helping to feed humanity, and keep our fields fertile, as capture carbon dioxide.

Coal - to - liquid fuels with carbon capture and storage could replace about 15 — 20 % of current fuel consumption in the transportation sector (2 — 3 million barrels per day; the lower estimate holds if coal is also used to produce coal - and - biomass - to - liquid fuels) and would have lifecycle CO2 emissions similar to petroleum - based fuels.

While he says he could talk «for hours» about the benefits that trees have in vulnerable communities, carbon capture, temperature control, and flood protection top the list.

I wince when climate scientists rally for nuclear power, for example, or make statements about the validity of claims about «clean coal» and «fossil carbon capture» when they've never published or worked in those areas.

In 2005, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published a report on carbon dioxide capture and storage that was enthusiastic about the possibilities of such technology, but downbeat on prospects for adoption given the cost.

Most analyses use models that have very optimistic assumptions about the implementation of carbon pricing globally and the availability of key technologies like carbon capture and storage.

The comment, made during a Jan. 17 interview with the editorial board of The San Francisco Chronicle, essentially explains how the kind of cap and trade mechanism sought by both Mr. Obama and Senator John McCain (the latter at least in his platform, if not on the stump) would make coal combustion ever more costly (unless the world finally gets serious about investing in large - scale testing and deployment of systems for capturing and burying carbon dioxide).

If the question is about climate, as was the case in the Biden - Palin debate, one can only presume that the «clean» refers to capturing and storing carbon dioxide, the main heat - trapping emission linked to recent warming.

While a handful of projects have captured carbon dioxide, compressed it, and pumped it into the ground, they have done so on a scale of no more than about 1 million tons a year.

However — even including the cost of carbon capture and storage — the U.S. Energy Information Administration's 2012 Annual Energy Outlook predicts that five years from now gas - fired power will be less expensive than wind, and about half the cost of state - of - the - art solar power.

There's plenty more, including a great question about making climate - friendly fuels using carbon dioxide captured from air, posed by 14 - year - old Benji Fields (the son of a friend).

Both of these options are cost effective: by telling the power market to go someplace besides coal - and telling them to spare us the BS about future carbon capture - incentives will increase to fund clean alternatives.

Finally, this all points to another reality — that if you care about blunting the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, you'd better start hoping for a lot more basic science on how to capture that gas cheaply and stash it away for safekeeping.