Responsible action by the fossil energy companies would also have included vigorous investments to assess
the feasibility of carbon capture and storage technologies.
Although considered critical to avoiding catastrophic global warming, scientists have questioned
the feasibility of carbon capture — removing carbon dioxide...
The Party has also removed the cap on wind power to encourage the development of more non-renewable wind energy; initiated studies on
the feasibility of carbon capture and storage as a means of disposing carbon dioxide emissions; and provided grants to promote the bio-energy industry.
Not exact matches
Chinese utility company Huaneng and U.S. company Duke Energy Corp. signed a cooperation agreement this year calling for a study to determine the
feasibility of applying Huaneng's
carbon capture process at Duke Energy's coal - fired power plant in Indiana.
The model showed this scenario to be at the «limits
of feasibility», with many
of the model runs limited by the difficulty
of rapidly deploying low -
carbon technologies, such as
carbon capture and storage (CCS), in the near term.
Proposed methods
of extraction such as bioenergy with
carbon capture and storage (BECCS) or air
capture of CO2 imply minimal estimated costs
of 104 - 570 trillion dollars this century, with large risks and uncertain
feasibility.
Zara L'Heureux from Columbia University then described recent work from the Centre for Negative
Carbon Emissions in Arizona, demonstrating the
feasibility of direct air
capture (DAC) for
carbon sequestration.
The CCS project was started last October at the plant near New Haven, W.Va., in an attempt to demonstrate the
feasibility of capturing carbon from a coal - fired generation facility.
Is it possible that a small part
of the money to be invested will be contributed to ongoing tests
of carbon capture and storage
feasibility?
This requires no further investment into
carbon capture and sequestration technology, which is yet to show any signs
of feasibility.