Friedrich - Karl Ewert's speech was titled «Mission impossible - geological
facts of carbon capture and storage in Germany.»
Not exact matches
The
fact that the funding model has been agreed upon is great news, since although I have been critical
of Alberta's
carbon capture and storage strategy in the past, I think that these pilots provide a crucial opportunity for technological advancement.
The simple demonstration that it's possible to
capture carbon in soil, and the documentation
of that
fact with rigorous science, is a success in itself.
Besides the
fact that
carbon dioxide is plant food and so the very opposite
of pollution, the technology
of carbon - dioxide
capture on a full - scale power plant is still a technological fantasy.
What further puts the credibility
of the CSA approach in question is the
fact that it was the World Bank that brought forward the idea
of measuring how certain agricultural practices sequester
carbon in soil so as to turn the
carbon captured by the soils
of the small scale farmers into
carbon credits.
Eisenberger and Chichilnisky say GT overcomes the issue that has bedeviled efforts to
capture CO2 from the flue gas
of coal plants with sorbents — the «parasitic load» problem, or the
fact that the extra energy it takes to
capture carbon would reduce the efficiency
of the coal plant.