Sentences with phrase «thought of carbon capture»

When the competition launched two years ago, most thought of carbon capture only in the context of enhanced oil recovery.

Not exact matches

The fact that the funding model has been agreed upon is great news, since although I have been critical of Alberta's carbon capture and storage strategy in the past, I think that these pilots provide a crucial opportunity for technological advancement.

Armed with new Department of Energy money, a Connecticut company announced this week it is moving forward with a carbon capture project that it thinks could revolutionize the technology.

While some experts think these solutions are impractical for wide - scale use, others say there is a need for additional tests capturing carbon dioxide from cement, one of the highest - emitting industries.

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.

«I think it's better to turn CO2 into something useful,» Yu said, comparing the approach to other methods of carbon capture.

Once the nation is committed to action, the government and private sector could concentrate their thinking on whether very large - scale infrastructure investments would need to be supported with public funds ---- projects such as solarization of the grid, new coal power plants with carbon capture and sequestration, etc..

I still think this 2010 paper by Howard J. Herzog at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology very nicely lays out what to look for to gauge if countries are serious about this issue: «Scaling up carbon dioxide capture and storage: From megatons to gigatons.»

I think the analysis that best captures this effect is the one done by Larry Cathles (see here and here), which concludes that even with 1 percent leakage, on the centennial time scale switching to natural gas gives you 40 percent of the benefit of switching to entirely carbon - free energy.

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 foCapture 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 focapture utilization and storage (CCUS) has a number of interesting articles on how countries and companies across the world are thinking about opportunities for CCUS.

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?

«At the end of the day, I think that the price of air capture will determine the price of carbon.

«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).

One questioner suggested that biomass was not a particularly good way of removing carbon from the atmosphere, as growing trees usually takes too long for it to be effective, although other participants thought that fast growing trees were a good way of capturing carbon.

By 2050 the IEA thinks we need a CCS industry capable of capturing 7,000 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year and storing it underground.

When two European utilities pulled out of the Rotterdam Warehousing and Capture Demonstration Project (ROAD) on June 27, many proponents thought the carbon capture and storage (CCS) dream was dead in Capture Demonstration Project (ROAD) on June 27, many proponents thought the carbon capture and storage (CCS) dream was dead in capture and storage (CCS) dream was dead in Europe.

At around US$ 600 per tonne, Climeworks» system isn't an inexpensive way of reducing CO2 in the atmosphere, and this is the key factor that makes critics think carbon capture might be more of an illusion than a realistic strategy to fight climate change.

... some researchers think that by seeding the ocean with iron, we can capture large amounts of carbon dioxide gas from the atmosphere.

I'll just direct readers to the TreeHugger archives on why we think there's no such thing as clean coal, and why carbon capture and storage can't be relied upon to allow us to keep using even a small percentage of the amount of fossil fuels we continue to burn: