Sentences with phrase «like carbon capture»

Flashback 2008: Al Gore: «Clean Coal's Like Healthy Cigarettes `: — Sep 28, 2008 — At the Clinton Global Initiative, Al Gore ripped apart «clean coal,» the coal industry catch - all propaganda term for advanced coal technologies, both existing ones that reduce traditional pollutants and developmental ones, like carbon capture and sequestration.

The dust cloud is not a permanent cure, but it could offset the effects of climate change for a given time to allow slow - acting measures like carbon capture to take effect.»

They are working to protect communities from toxic coal ash, end mountain top removal, get the World Bank to stop funding coal projects, put existing mining protections into action, eliminate dirty coal subsidies, halt the development of liquid coal, and expose false solutions like carbon capture and sequestration.

That carbon price may have to be extremely high, maybe ten times higher than it is now, if not more, for certain things like carbon capture and storage (CCS), to make them economically viable.

The climate crisis is here — and time has run out on false solutions like carbon capture and sequestration.

The standard (about 1,000 pounds of CO2 for every megawatt - hour of electricity produced) would be tough for prospective coal plants to meet without incorporating new technologies like carbon capture and storage (CCS).

Immediately repeal existing tax breaks for fossil fuel exploration and production, and halt efforts to extend and expand tax credits for unconventional fossil fuel production technologies, like carbon capture and storage and enhanced oil recovery.

Improving energy efficiency and switching to alternative fuels, in combination with reducing the clinker content in cement and deploying emerging and innovative technologies like carbon capture and the use of alternative binding materials are the main carbon - mitigation methods available in cement manufacturing.

Most analyses use models that have very optimistic assumptions about the implementation of carbon pricing globally and the availability of key technologies like carbon capture and storage.

He writes that economists got around the original «make or break point» by adding what he describes as negative emissions — the removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere during the second half of the century by things like carbon capture and storage.

Adoption of clean coal technologies like carbon capture and storage also will be a heavy lift for the utility sector, since they can significantly drive up production costs.

Not exact matches

Big infrastructure projects like high speed rail, super-fast broadband, carbon capture and storage.

Holbrook's technique could be a big piece of the clean energy puzzle, alongside technologies like carbon - capture and storage, and nuclear, says Steve Wittrig of the Clean Air Task Force, a non-profit organisation based in Boston, who was previously the director of advanced technologies at BP.

DEKALB, Miss. — The nation's first coal - fired power plant aiming to capture the majority of its carbon dioxide emissions rises like a silver city from a vast, cleared plot of Mississippi pine forests.

It would spur research into and development of important new technologies, like electric vehicles and carbon capture and storage technologies.

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.

Industrial - scale carbon capture facilities like the Great Plains Synfuel Plant in Beulah, North Dakota (which pipes CO2 to Canada, where it is injected into oil wells to improve oil recovery), already exist, and leaks have never been detected.

Similarly, Canada has been aggressive in funding research like Mercier's and carbon capture research on oil sands operations via national funds and a $ 2 billion money pot from Alberta, said the analyst.

Copper tetramers could allow us to capture and convert carbon dioxide on a larger scale — reducing an environmental threat and creating a useful product like methanol that can be transported and burned for fuel.

In a greenhouse - like lab, carbon dioxide captured from a nearby coal - fired power plant flows into hundreds of tubes and becomes an essential food supply for microalgae.

Fields argues the burden rests with countries like the U.S. that have the resources and technological know - how to undertake solutions, such as carbon capture and storage, which will be needed quickly.

What the authors would like to see is the prospect of limited and expensive coal get a serious consideration; currently, most energy policy decisions, such as a focus on carbon capture and storage for coal plants, assume that coal will remain cheap enough to compensate for its added costs.

It shows that for this «plan B» to be on the table, we will need vigorous development, deployment and acceptance of technologies like sustainable biomass in conjunction with carbon capture and storage,» says IIASA Deputy Director Nebojsa Nakicenovic, a co-author on the paper and a co-chair of the GCP scientific steering committee.

Anirudh Sharma is the founder of Graviky Labs and, working with a team of fellow inventors, produced a series of gadgets that attach to pollution emitters, like tailpipes, to capture raw carbon and soot.

, like when mom wanted you to clean your room, is if a moratorium is placed on the building of new coal - fired power plants until carbon capture and storage technology can be built into such plants.

As described in a news release by Mr. Martin, it sounds like a possible candidate for Richard Branson's $ 25 million carbon - capturing prize:

There are enormous assumptions in most calculations, including the assumption that «carbon negative» technologies, like capturing CO2 from power plants burning biomass, can be done at a scale remotely relevant to the climate problem (to be relevant one needs to be talking in gigatons of avoided CO2 emissions per year — each a billion tons).

He said this was particularly true for technologies like systems for capturing and storing carbon dioxide from power plants.

As we add institutional investors, we will be talking to energy companies and sovereign wealth funds, and be establishing the specifics of the fundby the end of the year And you know, there are some areas, like geothermal or carbon capture and sequestration, that relate to the kind of skills — seismic understanding, drilling holes in a safe way — there are some things that you'd expect the existing energy industry to really explore and try to make those as economic as possible, so that they will be important participants.

But without a substantial boost in basic research and development and large - scale demonstration projects related to technologies like mass energy storage, capturing and storing carbon dioxide, grid management and a new generation of nuclear plants, it's hard to see timely progress.

The Breakthrough team warns that while deployment of today's technologies is vital, if money for deployment is included in the $ 150 - billion pie, that dangerously reduces the amount of money for laboratories pursuing vital advances on photovoltaics or energy storage and for big tests of technologies that must be demonstrated at large scale — like capturing carbon dioxide from power plants.

There is wide agreement among scientists that inadequate funds are going to basic research in such fields as capturing carbon dioxide from smokestacks or the atmosphere, advancing photovoltaic cells and other solar power systems, finding ways to store large amounts of electricity from intermittent sources like wind or the sun, and making nuclear power more secure.

That's why supporters of carbon capture argue the technology deserves the same type of support that helped now - mainstream and cost - competitive technologies like wind and solar.

Highly promising candidates for capturing and containing carbon dioxide and other gases are crystalline extended systems with sponge - like storage capabilities.

While adding carbon capture to older U.S. coal plants may remain relatively uneconomic, countries like South Africa, China and Indonesia have a fleet of young, critical coal plants unlikely to retire in the near term.

But as mentioned earlier, it is unlikely that the CPP would enable compliance through non-power-sector carbon removal approaches like reforestation, direct air capture, and enhanced weathering, which are «outside the fence» of existing power plants and likely off limits for CPP regulation.

This is the new face of the old threat — that new land - based mitigation techniques, such as biochar, bioenergy carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and other types of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) geoengineering approaches, as well as old «solutions» like biofuels, will compete with the use of land to feed people.

EOR has the potential to aid in the development of CDR approaches like biomass power generation with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and direct air capture (DAC).

Still, all regions of the nation can take advantage of cleaner electric power, like nuclear, waste - to - energy, coal with carbon capture and sequestration, and natural gas.

Historically, direct air capture has been largely framed as overwhelmingly expensive or impractical at commercial scale by carbon capture experts, due to the challenge of capturing the dilute CO2 in the air (exhaust streams of power plants and other industrial facilities like oil refineries, steel mills, and cement plants have much more concentrated CO2 steams).

In the long run, it doesn't make sense, if we can capture if for $ 100, like, in 20 years, but there is a price on carbon for $ 400.»

The captured carbon can be turned into liquid fuels with something like this - http://www.ga.com/energy/em2/ — for an endless supply of fuel.

Every single country would have to radically increase its deployment of clean energy sources — things like solar or wind or nuclear or carbon capture for coal or electric cars or hydrogen cars — by an order of magnitude.

Other areas also hold significant promise for the industry, like technologies to capture carbon dioxide emissions and store them underground, and energy - efficiency programs, especially in the transportation sector.

Like the fact that mercury emissions from coal fired - power plants continues to rise and that carbon capture and storage remains an elusive pipe dream that will take another 40 years to deploy on a commercial scale.

I like to call it techno - hope because the problem remains that carbon capture and storage (CCS) on a commercial scale is still far off in the future, if attainable at all.

New plants can also be built with carbon capture, like the Petra Nova coal plant and the natural gas plant being developed by NetPower.

Like India, one of their methods has been to replace outdated coal technology: China opened its first carbon capture and storage plant in 2008, and a significantly larger plant was completed in Shanghai one year later to capture 100,000 - 120,000 metric tons of carbon annually.

Under the «new policies» scenario, the IEA says gas has a «very bright» outlook for the gas industry, particularly countries like Australia, the US and China, which have a lot of it to exploit, although the game plan relies on carbon capture being a serious and cost effective option by the mid 2020s.

The EPA and other proponents of carbon capture and storage technology say projects like Kemper could help assure a future for coal under the EPA's new climate change rules, outlined last September.