Sentences with phrase «studies of carbon capture»

While the EPA gave credence to what the anti-fracking movement suspected, three studies of carbon capture declare it's safe.

In October 2010 it was announced that Tenaska will receive $ 7.7 million in grant money to be used for an engineering design study of carbon capture technology in its proposed Trailblazer Energy Center.

Not exact matches

By contrast, two studies of EnCana spinoff Cenovus Energy's carbon capture and storage project in Weyburn, Sask., debunked claims by the owners of a nearby farm that carbon dioxide pumped into depleted oil reservoirs was escaping.

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.

Stuart Haszeldine, a professor of carbon capture and storage at the University of Edinburgh who did not participate in the study, called the new work encouraging, as it indicates escaped CO2 is not likely to have a perceptible impact, even in a worst - case scenario of poor site selection and leaky wells.

High - resolution transmission microscope (left) and scanning electron microscope images of a porous carbon sample studied for its ability to capture carbon dioxide from natural gas.

Seepage of carbon dioxide from long - term carbon capture and storage projects may lead to delayed global warming unless the gas can be tightly controlled, according to a new study.

The price would be roughly comparable to that of capturing carbon dioxide at power plants and storing it underground, which would eventually cost about $ 200 per ton of carbon, according to a recent study from Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, compared with about $ 400 per ton of carbon for the forests.

However, these models are unable to capture the increase in the sensitivity of carbon dioxide to tropical temperatures that is reported in this new study.

Now, a new study from Barros reveals that the increase in forest photosynthesis and growth made possible by tropical cyclones in the southeastern United States captures hundreds of times more carbon than is released by all vehicles in the U.S. in a given year.

The researchers can assess how much carbon can be captured and stored in the deep oceans by studying the amount of carbon that gets recycled back to the surface.

Chinese utility company Huaneng and U.S. company Duke Energy Corp. signed a cooperation agreement this year calling for a study to determine the feasibility of applying Huaneng's carbon capture process at Duke Energy's coal - fired power plant in Indiana.

Additionally, Hill said, much of the potential for carbon capture and sequestration involves a process not considered by the study — enhanced oil recovery.

The Rice lab of chemist Andrew Barron revealed in a proof - of - concept study that amine - rich compounds are highly effective at capturing the greenhouse gas when combined with carbon - 60 molecules.

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.

Scientists previously thought it wasn't possible to capture and store carbon this way because earlier studies suggested it could take thousands of years for large amounts of carbon dioxide to be converted to chalk.

In a paper published in the journal Nanotechnology [«Static micro-array isolation, dynamic time series classification, capture and enumeration of spiked breast cancer cells in blood: the nanotube - CTC chip»], Panchapakesan's team, which includes graduate students Farhad Khosravi, the paper's lead author, and researchers at the University of Louisville and Thomas Jefferson University, describe a study in which antibodies specific for two markers of metastatic breast cancer, EpCam and Her2, were attached to the carbon nanotubes in the chip.

Oxford University atmospheric physicist Raymond Pierrehumbert, who is among the scientists who believe cutting methane should be less of a priority than cutting carbon dioxide to tackle climate change, said the study is useful in evaluating methane capture systems at landfills.

The capture and release of carbon dioxide is difficult to study in coastal systems because of their diverse and variable nature.

As our ongoing Energy Challenge series and plenty of independent studies have made clear, the country and world are still not engaged seriously in advancing non-polluting energy technologies, from solar cells to the elusive notion of capturing carbon dioxide from power plants at a large scale and stashing it somewhere.

But as Congress considers billions of dollars in aid for projects to make gasoline and diesel substitutes from coal, and to build coal - fired plants that would capture their own carbon emissions, the study said that estimates of coal reserves were unreliable.

If you run a research laboratory and the government offers you a large sum of money to study carbon capture (say) do you turn the money down if you think the concept is not feasible?

And closer study of biomass burning is calling into question the «carbon - neutral» assumption: that growing wood or other biomass captures the same amount of CO2 that subsequent burning for electricity generation releases.

The study pins great hopes on the ability of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) to reconcile coal's importance as an energy source and its contributions to CO2 emissions, joining OPEC, Midwestern Governors, and BP in hoping CCS will prove to be an economically viable solution for cleaning up fossil fuel emissions.

Baking soda of all things may help to capture carbon dioxide, according to a new breakthrough study.

This study examines the effect of patents on the worldwide transfer of clean energy technologies (CETs), including solar photovoltaic, geothermal, wind, and carbon capture.

But to capture from the air the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by, say, a 1,000 - megawatt coal power plant, it would require air - sucking machinery about 30 feet in height and 18 miles in length, according to a study by the American Physical Society, as well as huge collection facilities and a network of equipment to transport and store the waste underground.

Four years of study and talking to industry insiders and environmental organisations, some of which have backed CCS, show the arguments for carbon capture differ from country to country, but in none of them is the technology taking off, he reports.

[W] hile this study shows that alternative options can greatly reduce the volume of CDR [carbon dioxide removal] to achieve the 1.5 °C goal, nearly all scenarios still rely on BECCS and / or reforestation (even the hypothetical combination of all alternative options still captured 400 GtCO2 by reforestation).

Ultimately, such studies will lead to a complete understanding of how atmospheric carbon dioxide is captured and transformed by ocean surfaces, a crucial role in the carbon cycle.

This study, identifies and assesses system approaches in order to prioritize research needs for the capture and non-atmospheric sequestering of a significant portion of the carbon dioxide (CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB--RRB- emitted from fossil fuel - fired electric power plants (US power plants presently produce about 7 % of the world «s CO -LCB- sub 2 -RCB- emissions).

But the study, backed by US partners and launched only in 2012, shows that one problem with carbon dioxide capture as a way of reducing the greenhouse effect can be sidestepped.

A recent study by Adam Brandt of the Stanford University School of Earth Sciences notes that at $ 40 we can expect no more than one additional carbon - capture project in the oil sands, capturing 1.6 megatonnes of carbon.

This has left us with highly variable estimates of project costs, ranging from Klaus Lackner's claim that air capture could be effectuated for less than $ 100 per ton of carbon dioxide to more than $ 1000 in a 2011 study, as well as the American Physical Society's estimate of about $ 600 per ton.

A 2009 study on the negative effects of power generation by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), «The hidden costs of electricity: externalities of power generation in Australia» calculated the greenhouse impacts and health damage costs of different power generation technologies including coal, gas, wind, solar photovoltaic, solar thermal, geothermal, carbon capture and storage, and nuclear energy, and determined that health costs of burning coal are equivalent to a national health burden of around $ A2.6 billion per annum.

In the face of mounting support for clean coal and the billions being invested in carbon capture and storage, or C.C.S., technology, a new assessment from the University of Toronto's Munk Center for International Studies has a stern warning for policy - makers: there could be dramatic unintended environmental consequences to sequestering huge amounts of carbon dioxide in the earth's mantle.

Adding to the gloom, an allied technology called carbon capture and utilization (CCU)- which makes use of captured CO2, rather than storing it underground - was reported yesterday to be many years from fruition, in a study from the UK's Center for Low Carbon Futures.

We better hope that some form of carbon storage does materialize, though — because quite a few published studies say that getting back to 350 ppm of atmospheric CO2 without some form of carbon capture and storage is infinitely costly, and so effectively impossible.

The team will also continue its research through the running of additional fermentation - related carbon capture studies.

A new study by Michael Wang and Jeongwoo Han at Argonne National Laboratory and Xiaomin Xie at Shanghai Jiao Tong University assesses the effects of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology and cellulosic biomass and... Read more →

With carbon dioxide capture, the study finds that Fischer - Tropsch fuels derived from a mixture of coal and biomass can have lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions that are less than half of those of petroleum - derived fuels.