Sentences with phrase «add carbon capture technology»

But if you add carbon capture technology, this facility can catch all the carbon dioxide stored by the plants before it escapes back into the air.

Adding carbon capture technology to that plant sucks up 40 percent of the power it can produce and adds at least 2.7 cents to the retail price of that electricity.

Not exact matches

Given that a new coal plant can't meet either of those standards without adding carbon capture and storage technology, the limit will only determine how intensively a new plant would have to run its carbon capture unit.

View a slide show of the world's first carbon capture and storage facility in operation The small stream of flue gas travels to the carbon - capture unit through plastic pipes reinforced with fiberglass and is cooled to between — 1 and 21 degrees Celsius from the 55 - degree C temperature at which it emerges from the other environmental technology add - ons that strip out the fly ash, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.

Adding carbon and capture technology to new coal plants makes electricity from coal more expensive than energy from solar thermal and wind power, even when «firming costs» are included for alternatives (see table).

The Oil Drum quotes an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change carbon capture and storage report that says carbon capture technology can add a cost of «1 to 5 cents dollar per kilowatt - hour.»

Adding to the gloom, an allied technology called carbon capture and utilization (CCU)- which makes use of captured CO2, rather than storing it underground - was reported yesterday to be many years from fruition, in a study from the UK's Center for Low Carbon Futures.

The world must scale up technologies that capture carbon dioxide, instead of replacing the polluting fuels with renewable sources, he added.