But carbon pricing and the inability of the coal industry to demonstrate
the viability of carbon capture and storage implies new coal - fired power capacity may never become investment - worthy.
Not exact matches
In releasing its draft rule in 2013 on
carbon emissions from new power plants, EPA cited Kemper, along with three other proposed plants, as an example
of the
viability of CO2
capture technology.
These findings, published today in the journal Nature Communications, demonstrate the
viability of a process called
carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a solution to reducing
carbon emissions from coal and gas - fired power stations, say researchers.
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.