Whether it's through this technique or some other, using the innovative abilities of the private sector to increase their own bottom lines through efficient carbon capture could be the best way to advance not
just carbon capture technology, but its actual utilization in real world.
Not exact matches
Today's scientists are scrambling to develop
technology to cope with climate change;
carbon capture technology, renewable energy and drought - resilient crops are
just a few examples.
Forget wind turbines and nuclear power stations — the world could cut greenhouse gas emissions
just using
carbon capture and storage (CCS)
technology.
(See «Scaling up
carbon dioxide
capture and storage: From megatons to gigatons,» a 2009 paper by Howard J. Herzog at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, for
just one of many sobering takes on what's needed.)
Such a transformation will require not
just moral commitment and more mindful consumption, but most importantly major government financing of innovations in solar, wind, nuclear energy, and
carbon capture and storage
technologies.
In Miller's view,
carbon capture technology just perpetuates the use of fossil fuels — and dangerously delays the transition to renewable energy.
From solar panel factories in China to a
carbon capture - and - storage facility in the Sahara desert to massive wind and solar installations in the United States, the movie «Power Surge» travels the globe to reveal the surprising
technologies that
just might turn back the clock on climate change.
So while we'd prefer an end to all coal,
technologies to
capture and store the
carbon emissions from coal plants will
just have to help us out in the meantime.