Sentences with phrase «about carbon capture technology»

«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.

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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.

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

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

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.

I still think this 2010 paper by Howard J. Herzog at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology very nicely lays out what to look for to gauge if countries are serious about this issue: «Scaling up carbon dioxide capture and storage: From megatons to gigatons.»

As POWERnews reported, the ministry in 2010 expressed concerns about possible health and environmental risks related to amine technology and had evaluated alternative solutions to capture carbon from the refinery's existing catalytic cracker facility and adjacent CHP plant.

POWER's Editor Interviewed About Carbon Capture and Sequestration In November 2015, POWER Editor Gail Reitenbach gave a luncheon keynote presentation at the Carbon Management Technology Conference on SaskPower's Boundary Dam 3 carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) pCapture and Sequestration In November 2015, POWER Editor Gail Reitenbach gave a luncheon keynote presentation at the Carbon Management Technology Conference on SaskPower's Boundary Dam 3 carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) pcapture and sequestration (CCS) project.

But there are important questions about feasibility, say the authors, given that carbon capture and storage technology does not exist on a large scale.

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.

The standard (about 1,000 pounds of CO2 for every megawatt - hour of electricity produced) would be tough for prospective coal plants to meet without incorporating new technologies like carbon capture and storage (CCS).

In operating the technology that captures carbon, the power plant gobbles up about 20 to 30 percent more energy, so efficiency is typically lost.

Since then, events have told a rather different story, with the U.S. waging a multi-front campaign — organizing a global network of bilateral agreements designed to render the U.N. climate process «irrelevant», sending out its flacks to argue that fossil technologies like «clean coal» and carbon capture are the best ways forward, insisting that the under - funded climate secretariat separate its Kyoto Protocol accounts from those related to the Framework Convention, ruthlessly undermining all attempts to talk about, or even talk about talking about, the future of the regime.

However, a substantial tax might also bring about the widespread introduction of carbon capture and storage technology, which might enable a new wave of investment in coal - fired generation.

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