Sentences with phrase «including carbon capture»

He goes on to propose an alternative of investment in research and development, including carbon capture, as an alternative to emissions reductions.

This chapter addresses the energy - supply sector and analyses the cost and potential of greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation from the uptake of low - and zero - carbon - emitting technologies (including carbon capture and storage) over the course of the next two to three decades.

There are various types of technologies that can play significant roles in mitigating climate change, including energy efficiency improvements throughout the energy system (especially at the end use side); solar, wind, nuclear fission and fusion and geothermal, biomass and clean fossil technologies, including carbon capture and storage; energy from waste; hydrogen production from non-fossil energy sources and fuel cells (Pacala and Socolow, 2004; IEA, 2006b).

Reporting emissions from bioenergy has always been a challenge, and these issues are further compounded when including carbon capture and storage.

Chapter 4 addresses the energy supply sector, including carbon capture and storage; Chapter 5 transport and associated infrastructures; Chapter 6 the residential, commercial and service sectors; Chapter 7 the industrial sector, including internal recycling and the reuse of industrial wastes; Chapters 8 and 9 the agricultural and forestry sectors, respectively, including land use and biological carbon sequestration; Chapter 10 waste management, post-consumer recycling and reuse.

This policy document offers recommendations to the UNFCCC on how Carbon Capture Use and Storage, including carbon capture and storage for enhanced recovery of hydrocarbons, can positively contribute to net climate change mitigation outcomes as part of the policy portfolio established to support the post-2015 instrument.

The Center's research will initially focus on building energy efficiency, clean coal including carbon capture and storage, and clean vehicles.

On November 4, 2009, European Union Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs and US Secretary for Energy Steven Chu launched a new EU - US Energy Council in Washington, DC to «continue and deepen» cooperation in energy and environmental subjects including carbon capture and storage (CCS).

The American Lung Association does not support the construction of new advanced coal - based generating facilities, including carbon capture and sequestration and integrated gasification combined cycle plants.

Ms. Ahmad focuses on financing opportunities and policy development for energy technologies, including carbon capture, use, and storage (CCUS).

Initial research priorities will be building energy efficiency, clean coal including carbon capture and storage and clean vehicles.

We will establish an international initiative with the support of the IEA to develop roadmaps for innovative technologies and cooperate upon existing and new partnerships, including carbon capture and storage (CCS) and advanced energy technologies.

Priority areas of focus for this Initiative may include: energy efficiency, smart grid, second - generation biofuels, and clean coal technologies including carbon capture and storage; solar energy and energy efficient building and advanced battery technologies; and sustainable transportation, wind energy, and micro-hydro power.

The Fossil Energy R&D program would substantially scale back most activities, including carbon capture and storage pilot projects and R&D on advanced combustion systems, re-focusing exclusively on exploratory technology activities in hopes that industry will take on greater responsibility across the board.

And last year the US and China launched a climate - change working group with joint plans that include carbon capture and storage, smart grids and energy efficiency.

[6] Both projects were planned to include carbon capture and storage technology.

On Friday, Britain's Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Ed Miliband, announced that any new coal power plants — and Britain plans to build up to four — must include carbon capture and storage (CCS), which proposes to liquefy a power plant's carbon emissions and store them deep underground.

Not exact matches

They're broader than wind and solar and can include nuclear and carbon capture storage.

Offices that will see deep cuts include those responsible for promoting energy efficiency, bringing carbon capture and storage to market, and extending the life of nuclear power plants.

It's essential to extend and expand tax incentives for carbon capture, update state laws to include CCUS technology in clean energy standards, and fund continued carbon capture RD&D, among other things, if we are going to reach our emissions - cutting goals.

The resulting innovations include a methane digester, which converts cow waste into renewable energy; a carbon farming program, designed to measure and optimize carbon capture; and an extensive water - reuse system, which recycles waste water from the Creamery.

Mass Audubon promotes conservation of our forest resources, including old growth reserves, for wildlife habitat and public benefit and for the capture of carbon from the atmosphere in forest growth and soils.

Metal - organic frameworks have potential for a large range of applications, including fuel storage, drug delivery, and carbon capture.

Highest priorities would include renewable energy, nuclear power and carbon capture and sequestration.

With what EPRI calls a «full» portfolio of technology options, including new nuclear, expanded wind power and carbon capture, the price of electricity in current dollars would climb by 80 percent in 2050.

The economic stimulus package is expected to include billions for research and development of carbon capture and storage

Although carbon capture and storage has attracted a growing number of advocates, including environmental groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council, it has also attracted its fair share of detractors, such as Greenpeace, and skeptics including the U.S. Geological Survey's Yousif Kharaka (pdf), who has shown that leaking CO2 can make surrounding water acidic, mix with brine and leach metals, and pose potential health risks to people and wildlife.

The DOE says that it will request $ 241 million for fiscal year 2009 to demonstrate technologies for cost - effective carbon capture and storage for coal - fired power plants — including $ 156 million for the restructured FutureGen approach (aimed at commercializing the technology by 2015) and $ 85 million for the agency's Clean Coal Power Initiative.

Nitrogen helps plants produce proteins, including the key molecules that control photosynthesis, the process by which the sun's energy is captured and converted into the carbon compounds that are the raw material for growth.

The convention's definition of geoengineering includes any technology that reduces solar heating of the Earth or increases carbon capture from the atmosphere — though carbon - capture and storage projects can go ahead as long as the carbon comes direct from industrial emissions.

Governments that have signed Kyoto have until 2008 to decide whether the CDM should include technologies that capture carbon emissions, for instance from a coal - fired power plant, and then bury them below ground.

Using a modified atomic force microscope, Leo Gross of IBM Research in Zurich, Switzerland, and colleagues captured bonds in three different carbon molecules, including the flat form of hexabenzocoronene pictured above (Science, doi.org/jcr).

The agency is also putting big green toward a host of other emission - lowering projects, including better batteries ($ 2 billion), geothermal technologies ($ 400 million) and carbon capture and storage ($ 3.4 billion).

A host of new techniques and technologies will be required to reduce emissions from these sources that includes reusing heat and power generated in manufacturing processes; recycling materials or substituting them; controlling greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide (CO2); and, ultimately, capturing and burying the CO2 produced.

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions will involve developing «a variety» of energy sources, including renewables, nuclear, and fossil fuel technologies with carbon capture and storage, he said in response to a question from an audience member.

The most promising of these options include renewable sources of a variety of types, advanced fossil - fuel technologies that can capture and sequester carbon, and hydrogen - powered fuel cells for vehicle propulsion and dispersed electricity generation.

In a paper published in the journal Nanotechnology [«Static micro-array isolation, dynamic time series classification, capture and enumeration of spiked breast cancer cells in blood: the nanotube - CTC chip»], Panchapakesan's team, which includes graduate students Farhad Khosravi, the paper's lead author, and researchers at the University of Louisville and Thomas Jefferson University, describe a study in which antibodies specific for two markers of metastatic breast cancer, EpCam and Her2, were attached to the carbon nanotubes in the chip.

To allow solar to continue to soar, the 2016 U.S. Budget includes proposals «to reform and renew tax credits that incentivize the deployment of wind, solar, and carbon capture sequestration technologies.»

The report shall assess a variety of carbon reduction technologies, including the application of various carbon capture and sequestration technologies for both new and existing power plants.

And industry leaders have focused recently on ways to impose cleaner coal technologies, including at a major conference in Delhi earlier this month featuring high - level government and industry leaders focusing on coal gasification, carbon capture and storage, upgrades and other measures to improve efficiency and reduce pollution.

«(ii) include at least 2 electric generating units, each with a nameplate generating capacity of 250 megawatts or greater, that capture, inject, and sequester carbon dioxide into geologic formations other than oil and gas fields; and

Other higher - tech options include using chemicals to absorb CO2 from the air, or burning plants for energy and capturing the CO2 that would otherwise be released, then storing it permanently deep below the ground, called bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS).

The technology to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, including planting new forests and building facilities that directly remove and capture climate pollution from the air, is in its infancy.

Then Klaus branched into climate research, including contributing to a report on carbon capture and storage for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The Fossil Energy Research program conducts research on nascent carbon capture and storage technology in addition to oil and gas drilling technology, including fracking.

In 2006 CATF supported an evaluation on biochar research gaps and co-founded the International Biochar Initiative (IBI), which seeks to develop practical demonstrations and commercial development for capturing and storing carbon from a wide range of feedstocks, including wastes and manures.

It can be used as sustainable fertilizers and to filter a broad range of contaminants, including antibiotics, pesticide and hormones in wastewater and water, as well as to capture greenhouse and odorous gases such as carbon dioxide and ammonia.

In some cases, system 100 includes control system 116 operatively coupled to carbon dioxide capture facility 102, algaculture facility 104, or both.

Referring to FIG. 4, system 400 includes carbon dioxide capture facility 102 and algaculture facility 104.

At PNNL, Kerisit researches a wide range of topics relevant to the geochemistry community including the chemistry of mineral - water interfaces, carbon capture and sequestration, the aqueous corrosion of glasses, the mechanisms of mineral nucleation and growth, and the redox properties of natural systems.