Sentences with phrase «says carbon capture technology»

The Oil Drum quotes an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change carbon capture and storage report that says carbon capture technology can add a cost of «1 to 5 cents dollar per kilowatt - hour.»

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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.»

The coal industry was interested in ensuring that the Paris deal provides a role for low - emission coal - fired power plants and financial support for carbon capture and storage technology, the officials said.

It also says technology to capture carbon from power plants and other industrial facilities — so - called carbon capture and storage — needs support in order to encourage large - scale projects.

Speaking at Chongqing University, Mr Cameron said a Conservative government would fit all coal power stations with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology and hit out at a lack of government progress in the field.

Mr Miliband said permission would be granted on the condition they can be retrofitted with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology within five years of 2020 - subject to the technology available.

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.

Development of cost - effective means to separate carbon dioxide during the production process will improve this advantage over other fossil fuels and enable the economic production of gas resources with higher carbon dioxide content that would be too costly to recover using current carbon capture technologies, Tour said.

And while EPA designed the rule to accommodate fossil fuel plants equipped with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, the Barnett report said such plants are unlikely to find favor with investors unless Congress provides incentives to defray their higher construction and operation costs.

Coal companies should take a proactive strategy and talk about solutions, such as carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) technology, Reavey said.

«There's no co-benefit to doing the carbon capture and storage,» says energy technology expert Kelly Sims Gallagher of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

«We need to develop technologies to do fossil fuels cleanly,» says Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, perhaps explaining why ARPA - E bankrolled five carbon - capture projects in this initial round.

The DOE says that it will request $ 241 million for fiscal year 2009 to demonstrate technologies for cost - effective carbon capture and storage for coal - fired power plants — including $ 156 million for the restructured FutureGen approach (aimed at commercializing the technology by 2015) and $ 85 million for the agency's Clean Coal Power Initiative.

The Energy Department may proceed with a «modified» plan to build a prototype coal - burning power plant that would capture and store carbon dioxide as part of new efforts to expand international collaboration on carbon - management technologies, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said today.

«With modest success in the technology management program, these cycles could compete with combined - cycle natural gas turbines and carbon capture and storage,» Dennis said.

«The Chinese government has been actively pursuing and supporting a technology development agenda that very quickly allowed China to make a breakthrough in the new generation of various technologies, and carbon capture and storage technology development was at first riding on this wave,» said Ellina Levina, an energy analyst at the International Energy Agency.

«If carbon capture and storage technologies are not realised, it may not be possible to keep the temperature increase below 2 °C,» said Peters.

«Unless you commercialize it, it's not going to contribute,» Kellie Caught of the World Wildlife Fund - Australia said about carbon capture technology needed to reduce coal plant emissions.

While acknowledging risks in carbon capture and storage technology, Shenhua engineers view their project as more of a helper, saying that it can help collect data and assist drafting rules in this unregulated sector.

«Lacking economic incentive is the biggest hurdle for the development of carbon capture, utilization and storage technology,» Sung said.

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions will involve developing «a variety» of energy sources, including renewables, nuclear, and fossil fuel technologies with carbon capture and storage, he said in response to a question from an audience member.

The DOE is asking Congress for $ 407 million to research how to burn coal most efficiently, along with $ 241 million to demonstrate such carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies — at least $ 900 million less than DOE said it would have cost to complete FutureGen.

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.

He said operational costs need to fall to about $ 100 per ton of captured carbon for the technology to be scalable.

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

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.

Frydenberg said carbon capture and storage technology, high - efficiency, low - emission coal - fired power stations, and the improvements in the technology of battery storage were canvassed in their discussion.

But there are important questions about feasibility, say the authors, given that carbon capture and storage technology does not exist on a large scale.

«The reality of any technology development, particularly in the energy space, is it's very difficult to move technologies into the marketplace without some sort of push,» said Walker Dimmig, spokesperson for NET Power, a company now testing carbon capture technology at its natural gas plant in Texas.

And in all but the most optimistic cases, staying below 2C requires capturing and storing carbon in amounts that exceed the capabilities of current technology, say the researchers.

«We develop new technologies and reduce the costs of renewables, new nuclear, environmental protection in natural gas production, carbon capture and sequestration, really across the board,» Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said in a May teleconference, describing his agency's actions on climate change.

With construction almost complete in Mississippi on the first U.S. carbon capture coal plant, the Obama administration said «clean coal» technology is viable and should be standard.

«The PRESTO platform, a technology that effectively captures farmer's data and simplifies the quantification process and the rigorous third party audit is essential for developing and scaling agricultural carbon credits», said Leslie Durschinger, Founder and CEO of Terra Global Capital.

In its response to a consultation, the government said it will legislate to limit power plants to 450 grams of carbon dioxide for each kilowatt hour of electricity produced — effectively ruling out coal power without technology that captures emissions.

Besides, he said, the technology is not being developed as an alternative to the carbon capture and storage methods currently being tested for large - scale use on coal - fired power stations.

The company says it has developed technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and other industrial facilities.

If the plants are retrofitted with carbon capture technology or retired early, emissions would fall, Davis said, although he thinks this is unlikely.

Concerning coal, it says under «Key observations» in the summary, «With current technology, coal - fired power plants using carbon capture equipment are an expensive source of electricity in a carbon control case.

Achieving zero net carbon emissions is possible, even with continued burning of fossil fuels, said Dr. Patrinos, but only with the development of advanced biofuel production processes, and carbon capture and disposal or recycling technologies.

«I think everyone understands that we need to develop and expand this technology,» said Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D - N.D.), one of the sponsors of the bill, which supports carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS).

Keith Allott, WWF - UK's climate change spokesman said it would «avoid the risk of locking the UK into a high - carbon future» and could boost investment in carbon capture technology.

In a November report, The Global CCS Institute said carbon capture and storage (CCS) is the only technology able to decarbonize the industrial sector.

He said Southern had no real interest in pioneering carbon capture technology, and had exploited federal government grants to advance its proprietary gasification technology.

The basic technology is not new, said Ian Yeates, who heads the carbon capture division at SaskPower, a Canadian firm which will deploy its own version of carbon capture later this year.

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.

FuelCell said its technology can potentially «substantially reduce costs» compared to conventional carbon capture technology.

And to achieve the Agreement's goals, they say controversial and still - unproven technologies − including bio-energy and carbon capture and storage − will be needed.

Also the Paris Agreement says by the second half of this century, there must be a balance between the emissions from human activity such as energy production and farming, and the amount that can be captured by carbon - absorbing «sinks» such as forests or carbon storage technology.

«If coal is to continue as a primary component of the nation's future energy supply in a carbon - constrained world, large - scale demonstrations of carbon management technologies — especially carbon capture and sequestration — are needed to prove the commercial readiness of technologies to significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions from coal - based power plants and other energy conversion processes,» says the report.

Moreover, Dr. Hansen said, in contrast to the difficulties of controlling carbon dioxide, technologies already exist for capturing or eliminating many of the other kinds of emissions.