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Rock formations below the North Sea are Europe’s best hope for storing away tonnes of carbon dioxide and averting the worst of climate change, says a geologist at Ediburgh University. “There is no known alternative to storing carbon under the seabed or below ground if the EU is to
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While there’s no shortage of projects around the world aimed at finding ways to suck up carbon dioxide and store it safely away, they’re currently not making progress fast enough — or at a large enough scale — to make a dent in climate change. Even if such projects could
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A new system for capturing carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants could reduce the “energy penalty” that reduces the efficiency of other carbon capture methods, according to new research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The MIT strategy, called “pressurised oxy-fuel combustion,” uses more energy at the beginning
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The desperate drive to continue burning coal without spewing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere continues this week with the announcement the E.ON and Siemens are putting a pilot CO2 capture plant into operation at E.ON’s Staudinger power plant in Grosskrotzenburg, Germany. The pilot facility aims to put
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Shell UK Limited and National Grid are joining ScottishPower’s carbon capture and storage (CCS) consortium, with ScottishPower planning to deliver Britain’s first commercial-size CCS system operating from a coal-fired power station by 2014. The consortium is now in the process of submitting a bid for the UK Government’
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US energy researchers say they can use bees, pollen and helium-filled balloons to make sure carbon sequestration sites are really keeping in CO2. The technique, devised by scientists at the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), involves “fingerprinting” stored CO2 with a chemical tracer that makes
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Carbon capture and storage (CCS) are possible, but the cost of doing so — both early on and even as the technology matures — is likely to be staggering, according to a study from Harvard University’s Belfer Centre for Science and International Affairs. The researchers who prepared the study — “Realistic costs
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Clean coal technology could bring between £2 billion to £4 billion a year into the UK economy by 2030, as well as support between 30,000 to 60,000 in jobs like engineering, manufacturing and procurement, according to new research published today. The AEA Group report, “Future Value Of Coal
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ScottishPower today flicked the switch on a test project to extract carbon dioxide emissions from its Longannet power station. It will be the first time in the UK that emissions have been captured from a working coal-fired power plant. The company says the test puts it on track to deliver
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The UK and Norway today jointly commissioned a study to assess the North Sea’s potential for storing European carbon dioxide emissions in space under the sea bed. Lord Hunt, the UK’s Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change, and the Norwegian Minister Terje Riis-Johansen announced the study
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The UK could become a world leader in carbon capture and storage (CCS), with the North Sea potentially able to store hundreds of years worth of carbon dioxide emissions, according to a new study. The study was funded in part by ScottishPower, which is among the companies in the UK
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Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband last week announced that no new coal plants would be built in the UK without also including technology for carbon capture and storage (CCS). His proposal also called for up to four demonstration CCS plants to be constructed with funding from a new
