Sentences with phrase «on carbon capture»

Kate Kenny, a Caterpillar spokeswoman, said the company wants to focus on carbon capture and storage projects, such as FutureGen, an Illinois plant that is partly financed by the federal government.

The degree to which this occurs is dependent on the carbon capture strategies and the degree to which carbon is limiting (review [20]-RRB-.

This fourth issue also touches on carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies and their role in achieving global climate goals.

For instance Liberal Democrat MEP Chris Davies was responsible for the development of the EU directive on carbon capture and storage.

«We share the view that a significantly more aggressive agenda on carbon capture and storage and zero - pollution coal is necessary,» he said, adding that the administration has raised annual spending on storage options «from essentially zero to over $ 70 million.»

Huhne has said that: «We can do the 80 % reduction in emissions by 2050 without new nuclear, but it will require a big effort on carbon capture and storage and renewables.»

President Obama's climate action announcement yesterday relies heavily on carbon capture and storage technology eventually paying off as a commercially viable option.

Shell also said that it will maintain its spending on carbon capture and storage projects in Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Canada, Australia and America - most of which also receive state support.

RD&D on carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology is needed, especially given our conclusion that the current atmospheric CO2 level is already in the dangerous zone, but continuing issues with CCS technology [7], [244] make it inappropriate to construct fossil fuel power plants with a promise of future retrofit for carbon capture.

That, in turn, would reduce the coal industry's challenge by half — leaving it to focus on carbon capture.

«The agreement is not an obstacle to or a ban on carbon capture and storage (CCS).

It is interesting that in the interview Dr. Allen kind of downplayed the impact of this iron shortage on carbon capture in the oceans, partly because the science is so new.

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 strategy adds that member states and the commission should collaborate on carbon capture and storage, which will be «critical» to reaching climate targets cost - effectively.

He outlined several decisions taken during the Beijing talks, including the adoption of stronger vehicle fuel efficiency standards and work on carbon capture, utilization and storage projects.

The Carbon Capture Journal's issue on carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) has a number of interesting articles on how countries and companies across the world are thinking about opportunities for CCUS.

It's strange and alarming that they chose to highlight the most dangerous form of climate intervention (albedo hacking) instead of asking for a big push on carbon capture, which addresses the root cause of the problem and moreover is the key backstop technology for staying under 2 °C in a way that doesn't put the Earth in a perilous state.

This working paper examines the first five years of U.S. - China Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) Advanced Coal Technology Consortium, a collaborative effort by the United States and China to accelerate development on carbon capture and storage and other advanced coal technologies.

If U.S. companies can capitalize on carbon capture innovation, Friedmann said it may «create an export technology» as countries look to reduce emissions while maintaining those plants.

«From cap and trade, to a ban on coal - fired electricity generation... From world - leading innovation on carbon capture and storage to a revenue - neutral carbon tax, we can learn and build on these models.»

One interesting facet of the graph above is how much of the stimulus spending has been focused on carbon capture and sequestration, the process of catching CO2 as it leaves a power plant, compressing it and stashing it in the earth for safekeeping.

Can anyone point me to literature that models and quantifies the impact of this effect on carbon capture?

Reflecting that situation, the White House has maintained a bullish stance on carbon capture and storage (or sequestration), which it continues to call a «clean coal» technology.

Mindful of the important role of a range of alternative energy technologies, we recognize, in particular, the need for research, development, and large - scale demonstration of and cooperation on carbon capture and storage.

RD&D on carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology is needed, especially given our conclusion that the current atmospheric CO2 level is already in the dangerous zone, but continuing issues with CCS technology [7], [244] make it inappropriate to construct fossil fuel power plants with a promise of future retrofit for carbon capture.

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

Despite the ads» claims, an analysis by the Center of American Progress determined that ACCCE's companies spend relatively few dollars conducting research on carbon capture and storage, the most promising clean coal technology to reduce global warming pollution from coal - fired power plants.

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.

Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of five features on carbon capture and storage, running daily from April 6 to April 10, 2009.

As promising as it sounds, there are many uncertainties about whether solidifying carbon dioxide emissions could be a viable part of a climate strategy, said Bert Metz, a fellow at the European Climate Foundation who is unaffiliated with the study and was the lead author of a 2005 IPCC special report on carbon capture.

This year's spending plan is focused on carbon capture and storage technologies and gas hydrate research.

Understanding this leads to three posible pathways we can follow to lower greenhouse gas concentrations, and explains why I've chosen to focus my research on carbon capture and storage.

«Most scenarios consistent with 2 °C used in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report largely depend on carbon capture and storage (CCS), both from fossil - fuel combustion and, particularly, bioenergy,» said Andrew.

«This (pact) accelerates sharing of information on carbon capture and storage for power,» said Julio Friedmann, deputy assistant Secretary for Clean Coal for the U.S. Department of Energy.

Editor's Note: This is the fourth in a series of five features on carbon capture and storage, running daily from April 6 to April 10, 2009.

Australia is spending A$ 1.6 billion over five years on carbon capture and storage technology.

A 2005 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on carbon capture and storage, which guided Shaffer's modeling, said it was «very likely» that 99 percent of stored C02 would stay in place over the first 100 years and «likely» that the same percentage would stay in place over 1,000 years.

Editor's Note: This is the fifth in a series of five features on carbon capture and storage, running daily from April 6 to April 10, 2009.

Not exact matches

Baccini went on to say that forests were the only carbon capture and storage «technology» we had in our grasp that was «safe, proven, inexpensive, immediately available at scale, and capable of providing beneficial ripple effects.»

On this year's list, robots are going places no human has ever been, «big data» is doing things that weathermen have never been able to master, carbon is being captured from waste and turned into fuel simultaneously, fiber optic cables are searching for oil, and future well blowouts are being averted (maybe).

Many types of emissions from coal - fired plants have been reduced, but the capturing and storing of carbon dioxide, the emission that scientists say is most responsible for climate change, has been harder to accomplish on a significant scale.

The Canadian president of Royal Dutch Shell says carbon capture and storage — in which the Harper government has invested heavily — won't be successful unless a price is put on carbon.

Elizabeth Payne points out that carbon capture and storage — which the Harper government has committed millions in funding to — will need a meaningful price on carbon to succeed.

Power generation is all but decarbonised, relying by 2040 on generation from renewables (over 60 %), nuclear power (15 %) as well as a contribution from carbon capture and storage (6 %)-- a technology that plays an equally significant role in cutting emissions from the industry sector.

One of the premier's most vocal right - wing backers has registered to lobby the government about its carbon capture and storage laws on behalf of the province's largest greenhouse gas producing firm.

The Globe «s Jeffrey Simpson offers Canadian politicians plaudits for the following good deeds: Ed Stelmach's decision to fund research into carbon capture and storage; Dalton McGuinty's decision to protect the boreal forest (because «untouched forests are wonderful carbon sinks») and to sign on to the Western Climate Initiative; Stephen Harper for agreeing to pour money into Ontario infrastructure; and the premiers for finally agreeing «that within one sovereign country, there ought to be as few obstacles to the movement of people and capital as possible.»

The Party has also removed the cap on wind power to encourage the development of more non-renewable wind energy; initiated studies on the feasibility of carbon capture and storage as a means of disposing carbon dioxide emissions; and provided grants to promote the bio-energy industry.

While neither is overly occupied with the policy concerns of the larger environmental movement ¯ global climate, carbon capture, alternative energy, the future of nuclear power, and so on ¯ they help illuminate a common narrative that places nature above human need.

On Thursday, I was part of a distinguished panel (see photo) on Agro-Ecology and Soil which described how regenerative organic agriculture can reduce emissions, while mitigating climate change through carbon capture by plants and storage by soil biological processeOn Thursday, I was part of a distinguished panel (see photo) on Agro-Ecology and Soil which described how regenerative organic agriculture can reduce emissions, while mitigating climate change through carbon capture by plants and storage by soil biological processeon Agro-Ecology and Soil which described how regenerative organic agriculture can reduce emissions, while mitigating climate change through carbon capture by plants and storage by soil biological processes.

Part of the solution could be identified on this «green» building near the Eiffel Tower where plants are capturing carbon (i.e. carbon dioxide) and transforming it into sugars.