According to Obama's Web site, the U.S. Department of Energy under his control would work with private companies to design five clean - coal plants that take
advantage of carbon capture and sequestration.
Not exact matches
Development
of cost - effective means to separate
carbon dioxide during the production process will improve this
advantage over other fossil fuels and enable the economic production
of gas resources with higher
carbon dioxide content that would be too costly to recover using current
carbon capture technologies, Tour said.
The major other
advantage of CDR from fossil fuel plant cleanup is that air
capture can be done anywhere and thus where the
carbon can be both removed, used, and sequestered with the use even making the sequestration profitable.
Capturing the nearly pure stream
of CO2 emitted from corn ethanol refinery fermentation processes is cheaper however, and footing the bill for the added costs associated with
carbon capture can be further offset by taking
advantage of the market for CO2 availed by EOR.
Still, all regions
of the nation can take
advantage of cleaner electric power, like nuclear, waste - to - energy, coal with
carbon capture and sequestration, and natural gas.
Professor Davis says the method also has a big
advantage above alternative ways
of iconic liquid
carbon capture, he told the ACS members in San Diego.