Sentences with phrase «than storing it underground»

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.

Not exact matches

Another example of this principle is the extent to which water is being taken out of underground stores (aquifers) many times faster than it is being replaced by nature.

The advantage of having isotopes with short half - lives is that they need only be stored underground for centuries rather than millennia.

Its plan calls for stopping the diversion of water by filling in more than 500 miles of canals and levees, creating new surface water reservoirs, and drilling more than 300 wells to store billions of gallons of fresh water in an underground aquifer.

And, although a few projects such as the Sleipner gas field in the North Sea or oil fields owned by the EnCana Corporation in Calgary, Alberta have proved that CO2 can be pumped underground and remain trapped below cap rock, they are aimed at enhancing recovery of the fossil fuels in those fields rather than permanently storing the greenhouse gas.

Burying biochar stores its carbon underground rather than letting it enter the air as carbon dioxide.

The team also observed that GHG Avoided [GHGA = (1 - GHGI) · (lifecycle GHG emissions for the displaced fossil fuels] for BTL - RC - CCS is 56 % higher than that of EtOH - CCS largely because 56 % of the biomass carbon is stored underground for BTL - RC - CCS compared to only 15 % for EtOH - CCS.

And then the trees grown to absorb carbon would have to be stored deep underground, to prevent the carbon returning to the atmosphere to accelerate global warming rather than limit it.

So to address the first concern, four families worked with the World Wildlife Fund to create polar - bear resistant food storage containers that can be stored above ground, rather than underground where traditional ice cellars - some more than 100 years old and upwards of 12 feet deep - are beginning to melt and fill with water.

But, regenerative agriculture ensures more carbon is stored than released and keeps the drawn down carbon underground.

Quest, the result of a partnership between Shell, Canada Energy and Chevron, is a fully integrated CCS project designed to capture, transport and store deep underground more than a million tons of carbon dioxide annually.