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Could it be that economics isn’t the biggest hurdle standing in the way of our goal of safely locking away carbon dioxide using carbon capture and storage (CCS)? Two engineering professors in the US are arguing that the physical challenges of CCS have been wildly underestimated. Christine Ehlig-Economides of
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A group of British researchers have returned from a trip to the Middle East with new insights about how to possibly store large volumes of carbon dioxide deep underground. That strategy — called carbon capture and storage, or CCS — is considered to be a vital part of the effort to reduce
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E.ON and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council have awarded £6.9 million in research funding to four university-led projects investigating carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies to cut carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel power stations. Project teams led by the universities of Nottingham, Newcastle, Edinburgh and Leeds
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Officials in the Bush administration intentionally used inaccurate cost figures and promoted a plan experts said was unworkable before ultimately killing the FutureGen carbon capture and sequestration pilot project, according to a new US Congressional report. Highly touted as an effort that could make coal an environmentally benign source of
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This year promises to be a critical one for the nascent carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) industry, according to a new study from Emerging Energy Research (EER). The study, “Global Carbon Sequestration Markets & Strategies, 2009 – 2030,” notes that more than 120 carbon sequestration projects are currently under way around
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Oil giant Shell and Dutch energy company Essent are to study the feasibility of a 1,000MW carbon capture and storage (CCS) power plant in the Netherlands. The companies say most of the CO2 produced by the power plant would be captured and stored underground. Coal and solid biomass would
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Australia, the largest exporter of coal in the world, has unveiled plans to sweep carbon underground. The Australian government has announced it will fund a $100m (that’s in Aussie dollars) a year carbon capture and storage (CCS) institute. It will help Australia to meet a G8 commitment to have
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Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is undoubtedly the hot green topic of the moment. Hardly a day goes by without a new story on it and even the mainstream newspapers are writing enthusiastically about it as a potential saviour of the planet. As we’ve pointed out here on Greenbang
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Brussels bureaucrats at the European Commission (EC) are preparing to establish what could be a massively important network of projects to demonstrate the use of the controversial carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in power plants. As part of this the EC has this week put out a call inviting
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The controversial subject of carbon capture and storage (CCS) – liquefying toxic carbon emissions and burying it underground – is in the headlines again this week with the world’s first demonstration of CCS tech at Vattenfall’s coal-fired Schwarze Pumpe power station in Germany. The pilot starts on Wednesday using Alstom’
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So that was summer on Saturday, hope you enjoyed it and welcome to September. Greenbang spotted this carbon capture storage announcement on the wires this lovely Monday morning. Nordic Mining and Norwegion oil and gas company StatoilHydro have entered into a deal for the development of new technology for capture
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Norway might be most famous for its own brand of ski-ing and whaling, and even the Northern Lights but the country is also starting to hit the headlines with its green policies. The country is about to undertake a £32m research and development programme to develop a more cost effective