As part of those international efforts, the United States has agreed to end financial support for construction of new coal - fired power plants overseas, except for those in the «world's poorest countries» and those that
employ carbon capturing technologies.
Not exact matches
Therefore, much attention is being given to opportunities to
employ carbon -
capture - and - storage (or CCS)
technologies, which would separate
carbon dioxide from other stack gases, liquify it, and store it underground for long periods of time.
Impacts of a climate policy on coal use will depend upon the type of climate policy
employed, the stringency of the policy, the future price of natural gas, the future cost and penetration of nuclear and renewable
technologies, and the cost of coal - fired generation with
carbon capture and storage
technologies.
The USGS report did not evaluate the economic viability of geologic
carbon sequestration, but the cost of deploying these types of
capture and storage
technologies could be one of the main barriers to actually
employing this strategy.