Sentences with phrase «old coal fields»

The net result is that we have had to do a big job in the last 12 years to regenerating the old coal fields.

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Sequestration, as envisioned in the report, involves capturing the CO2 from coal - fired power plants, compressing it into a liquid and injecting it deep beneath the earth into old oil fields or saline aquifers.

In September 2005, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations organization that includes scientists from nearly every country in the world, released a report estimating that 2 trillion tons of carbon dioxide could be stored in old coal mines, abandoned oil and gas fields, and in various other geologic formations around the world.

Visitors to Garzweiler, a giant openface lignite coal field near Cologne, get to see this old chart showing that renewables (the green slice of the doughnut on the right) make up 2.3 percent of the firm's power supply, compared to 44.9 percent lignite and 22.4 percent hard coal.

But to win money from the newly - available federal Clean Coal Power Initiative, Southern now promised to also use TRIG to capture most of the plant's carbon dioxide, which would be compressed and piped out to older underproducing oil fields and injected into the ground to drive more oil to the surface — a process called enhanced oil recovery.

Some coal fields are over a billion years old.