Sentences with phrase «sequestration cost»

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The CO2 sequestration cost is still $ 339 / t CO2 but we need to sequester 3.66 times as much CO2 to achieve the same result.

[2] Peter Lang — preliminary estimate of CO2 sequestration cost https://judithcurry.com/2012/08/24/a-modest-proposal-for-sequestration-of-co2-in-the-antarctic/#comment-231960

«The break - even carbon tariff we calculated, which is at the range of $ 105 - 129 per ton of carbon dioxide, depending on the possible carbon tax to be imposed by these two regions in the near term, is close to the reported CO2 capture and sequestration cost,» You said.

The sequestration costs can not be easily defined, because of details such as the location of the coal plant relative to the sequestration location.

My calculations suggest the CO2 sequestration costs would be halved using nuclear power (allowing for the higher cost of nuclear plants in Antarctica and allowing for the need to disperse the excess heat).

Not exact matches

«A company might be faulted for its dealings with significant external forces, such as nonuniform and volatile state and regional regulations, or the rapidly evolving science related to management of its carbon footprint, such as the cost and feasibility of carbon sequestration technology.

County Executive Picente went on to say «What Washington has done with Sequestration is not a cost savings but a cost shift.

Emitting CO2 would need to cost at least $ 30 per metric ton via a carbon tax or a cap and trade market for any of the various carbon capture and sequestration technologies to be economically competitive, according to the report.

«Gasification looks today to be the lowest - cost option with carbon capture [but] there is no plant that integrates gasification with capture and sequestration.»

The University of California, Davis, estimates that the cost per gram of hydrogen produced from the electrolysis of water will remain more expensive than hydrogen produced from natural gas with carbon capture and sequestration well through the end of the decade.

The President's initiative will empower young men and women to invent and commercialize advanced energy technologies such as efficient and cost effective methods for converting sunlight to electricity and fuel, carbon capture and sequestration, stationary and portable advanced batteries for plug - in electric cars, advanced energy storage concepts that will enable sustained energy supply from solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources, high - efficiency deployment of power across «smart grids,» and carbon neutral commercial and residential buildings.

The concept of storing carbon in rock — known as geologic carbon sequestration — has been dogged by concerns about cost, stability, and environmental impact.

This information aids understanding of the impact of the reservoir heterogeneity and other operational parameters for economic decision - making and the cost - effectiveness of CO2 sequestration through enhanced oil recovery at other depleted reservoirs.

Even if there are large risks around the permanence of biologic sequestration, such biologic approaches might prove critical for buying time to develop more cost - effective geologic sequestration techniques.

Known as «sequestration,» the cuts are costing the district hundreds of millions of dollars...

Known as «sequestration,» the cuts are costing the district hundreds of millions of dollars in Title I money for school districts with high percentages of low - income students.

per year now and increasing] that would seem to indicate that any system that could restore «At Scale» some of that GtC back to the land (eg SOC sequestration) and vegetation (eg forests and grasslands) would be a winner idea — passing basic cost benefit evaluations of course.

The carbon sequestration efficiency was constrained by precipitation, and appropriate choices of restoration types (trees, shrubs, and grasses) in accordance to local climate are critical for achieving the best benefit / cost efficiency.

As regards carbon capture and sequestration, the Government Accountability Office estimates clean coal will cost 78 percent more than traditional methods.

The American Physical Society estimates the cost of capture and sequestration as ~ $ 2 trillion per GtC.

By basing the levy on emissions rather than carbon all greenhouse gases stand on a common level, sequestration is strongly encouraged as well as such simple things as capturing methane from oil wells and garbage dumps (that gets built into the cost of disposal).

«Recommendation 2: The Committee recommends research and development investment to improve methods of carbon dioxide removal and disposal at scales that would have a global impact on reducing greenhouse warming, in particular to minimize energy and materials consumption, identify and quantify risks, lower costs, and develop reliable sequestration and monitoring.»

«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.

• Large - scale reliance on this technology would drive learning curve, in turn driving down the cost of CO2 removal and creating a strong, mature, industry for producing the needed plant, which could later be turned to withdrawal and sequestration, if needed.

note 47, p. 16; sequestration per tree calculated assuming 500 trees per hectare, from UNEP Billion Tree Campaign, «Fast Facts,» at www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign, viewed 10 October 2007; growing period from Robert N. Stavins and Kenneth R. Richards, The Cost of U.S. Forest Based Carbon Sequestration (Arlington, VA: Pew Center on Global Climate Change, January sequestration per tree calculated assuming 500 trees per hectare, from UNEP Billion Tree Campaign, «Fast Facts,» at www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign, viewed 10 October 2007; growing period from Robert N. Stavins and Kenneth R. Richards, The Cost of U.S. Forest Based Carbon Sequestration (Arlington, VA: Pew Center on Global Climate Change, January Sequestration (Arlington, VA: Pew Center on Global Climate Change, January 2005), p. 10.

The practicality and cost of massive sequestration through agriculture and forestry remains uncertain and controversial, and economic free - air capture is even more speculative.

Carbon capture and sequestration is infeasible, because it has challenges in terms of scalability, storing liquid CO2, and cost.

In my calculation the burial cost was just 1 % of the total costs of the CO2 snow sequestration; here is the breakdown of my estimate of $ 2400 / t CO2: Electricity = 65 % Deposition Plants = 34 % Land fill (including insulation) = 1 %.

The $ 2 quadrillion, or whatever the true cost of sequestration turns out to be, does of course represent the true cost of burning fossil fuels in the first place.

(BTW, if nuclear power is substituted for wind, the total cost of CO2 sequestration would be about halved.)

Chief Hydrologist's Conservation Agriculture with CO2 sequestration by biochar is likely the most cost effective with the most beneficial by - products.

I've just posted another revision (version 3) of the cost estimate for CO2 sequestration.

On my rough calculations above (awaiting moderation: https://judithcurry.com/2012/08/24/a-modest-proposal-for-sequestration-of-co2-in-the-antarctic/#comment-232278) energy accounts for 63 % of the total cost of sequestration.

If nuclear was substituted for wind generation the total cost of CO2 sequestration in Antarctica (based on this proposal and my rough calculations) would be roughly halved.

Over the next 10 - 20 years we can expect further dilapidation of the grid, fuel supply crunches (see South Africa and China) in both gas and coal, extra costs imposed by cap & trade, carbon taxes or sequestration equipment, and demand unmatched by supply.

«It emerged at the international level, through the combination of, among others: (1) the conservationist interests of big environmental NGOs in the North, (2) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the North seeking low - cost alternatives to supposedly «offset» their continued and excessive emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases, (3) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the South seeking to obtain financial resources for the «protection» of forests in their countries, (4) the interests of corporations that could profit from market - tradable «offset» credits, including through speculation on secondary (derivatives) markets, which would allow them to continue destroying the forests for the extraction of timber, minerals or oil, the establishment of monoculture plantations, etc., thus expanding their business opportunities, and (5) the interests of consultants and other actors involved in financial capital markets who want to turn «unexploited» forests into a new market for this type of capital, through the commercialization of «environmental services» such as carbon sequestration, among others.»

note 22, p. 16; sequestration per tree calculated assuming 500 trees per hectare, from U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP), Billion Tree Campaign, «Fast Facts,» at www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign, viewed 10 October 2007; growing period from Robert N. Stavins and Kenneth R. Richards, The Cost of U.S. Forest Based Carbon Sequestration (Arlington, VA: Pew Center on Global Climate Change, January sequestration per tree calculated assuming 500 trees per hectare, from U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP), Billion Tree Campaign, «Fast Facts,» at www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign, viewed 10 October 2007; growing period from Robert N. Stavins and Kenneth R. Richards, The Cost of U.S. Forest Based Carbon Sequestration (Arlington, VA: Pew Center on Global Climate Change, January Sequestration (Arlington, VA: Pew Center on Global Climate Change, January 2005), p. 10.

A new discovery offers hope for cost - effective carbon capture and sequestration (CCS).

The challenges facing wetland restoration as a viable mechanism for carbon sequestration include the high costs of wetland restoration, which may surpass the value of carbon finance in projects, which necessitates partnering projects with more traditional funding pathways.

By deferring the actual remediation (sequestration) until the appropriate industries are mature, its overall cost to the system could be substantially reduced, while the more urgent goal of cheap, accessible energy for everyone could be met starting today with existing, already mature, technology.

From my perspective, carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is the key to reconciling coal's convenience and low energy cost with its high emissions.

In turn, we are positioning CO2 capture and sequestration as a viable climate change mitigation tool as well as enabling industrial customers requiring CO2 to lower their acquisition costs for existing and new applications.

The USGS report did not evaluate the economic viability of geologic carbon sequestration, but the cost of deploying these types of capture and storage technologies could be one of the main barriers to actually employing this strategy.

I don't see immediate sequestration, rather returning the carbon into the economy, either as purified CO2 for processes that use it, or methane or other fuels that will pay part, eventually all, of the costs of capturing it.

Although this is an intuitively appealing approach, the benefits of the sequestration activities have not been compared with the opportunity cost of preserving the forest.

And costs were not included in his model, although qualitatively and intuitively he felt bio-sequestration should be cheaper than geo - sequestration by CO2 capture and storage.

The cost for carbon sequestration with wood burial is low because CO2 is removed from the atmosphere by the natural process of photosynthesis at little cost.