Sentences with phrase «new carbon capture facilities»

Deployment of new carbon capture facilities in these sectors would reflect experience to date.

Not exact matches

«There will be relatively high costs in developing this new nuclear facility but broadly comparable with other low carbon technologies such as offshore wind, and, potentially, carbon capture and storage applied to gas and coal fired power stations.

Hydrogen Energy, a joint venture between BP and Rio Tinto, has proposed a new hydrogen - powered electricity generating facility for the Kern County area that would capture and sequester (store) most of its carbon related emissions.

To do this, facilities would have to incorporate carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology in their construction, a promising but relatively new method of capturing CO2 and either storing it underground or using the gas for industrial purposes.

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.

• Leads global sector public financing towards cleaner energy by calling for the end of U.S. government support for public financing of new coal - fired powers plants overseas, except for the most efficient coal technology available in the world's poorest countries, or facilities deploying carbon capture and sequestration technologies; and

Third, new technologies, such as underground coal gasification and especially carbon capture and storage, can — if given substantial financial support — reduce emissions substantially from coal use in power plants and industrial facilities.

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.

[1] The Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 defines «clean» electricity as «electricity generated at a facility placed in service after 1991 using renewable energy, qualified renewable biomass, natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power, or qualified waste - to - energy; and electricity generated at a facility placed in service after enactment that uses qualified combined heat and power (CHP), [which] generates electricity with a carbon - intensity lower than 0.82 metric tons per megawatt - hour (the equivalent of new supercritical coal), or [electricity generated] as a result of qualified efficiency improvements or capacity additions at existing nuclear or hydropower facilities -LSB-; or] electricity generated at a facility that captures and stores its carbon dioxide emissions.»

(1) deployment of technologies to capture and sequester carbon dioxide emissions from electric generating units or large industrial sources (except that assistance under this subtitle for such deployment shall be limited to the cost of retrofitting existing facilities with such technologies or the incremental cost of purchasing and installing such technologies at new facilities);

I have just had a piece published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: «We'd have to finish one new facility every working day for the next 70 years» — Why carbon capture is no panacea.

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.

Not one of the few specific actionable proposals (such as the WWF proposal to replace all fossil fuel fired plants with renewables or Hansen's proposal to shut down all coal - fired power plants or a proposal posted here by Bridges to install carbon capturing + sequestering facilities on half of all new coal plants) result in any perceptible reduction in global warming by 2100, all at exorbitant cost.

The credit would become effective for new power production facilities after January 1, 2017, although after 2016 a 20 percent credit would be available for existing facilities that retrofit to capture at least 50 percent of carbon dioxide emissions.