Carbon Capture

ONGSTAD, Norway (Reuters) – Norway on Monday launched the world’s largest facility of its kind to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS), the so-far commercially unproven technology that would allow greenhouse gases from power plants to be buried safely underground. … Continue reading →

Confidence in carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology is waning just as the need to roll it out to cut global emissions is becoming critical. And energy efficiency, often billed as the low-hanging fruit of carbon cutting, isn’t at all … Continue reading →

Recent changes in the Earth’s climate are primarily being driven by the burning of fossil fuels—that is, taking carbon from deep in the Earth, and dumping it into the atmosphere at breakneck speed. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could … Continue reading →

  A technological revolution in the UK’s infrastructure is already underway but policy changes are needed in order for them to succeed, the chief executive officer of National Grid will say tonight. In a speech to the Royal Academy of … Continue reading →

  Investments in Scotland’s growing renewables industry have proven the strength of close working between public and private sectors, Alex Salmond said today as he announced details of a two-day global green finance conference to be held in Edinburgh in … Continue reading →

  Coal’s future is directly correlated to the development of new technologies that scrub it of all harmful emissions as well as those that would capture and bury carbon emissions. That’s what a broad task force has concluded. The findings, … Continue reading →

  Last November, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) released a synthesis report on CCS in industrial applications, following the CCS Industrial Sector Roadmap. The report concludes that if a global system is not possible, a policy framework will … Continue reading →

  A Saskatchewan farm couple whose land lies over the world’s largest carbon capture and storage project says greenhouse gases seeping from the soil are killing animals and sending groundwater foaming to the surface like shaken soda pop. The gases … Continue reading →

  An overview of research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) efforts to supply cost-effective, advanced carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies for coal-based power systems is the focus of a new roadmap published by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Prepared … Continue reading →

  The Obama administration views carbon dioxide as a pollutant that warms the earth, and it imposed new regulations at the beginning of the year to begin to control CO2 emissions. But to Texas oilmen, carbon dioxide is a useful … Continue reading →