One of the most striking commonalities between China and the United States is that both countries are blessed with large coal reserves,and naturally, both rely heavily on coal for their primary energy supply. U.S. coal reserves are estimated at 243 billion tons (29% of world total), and Chinese at 115 billion tons (14% of world total). China’s reserves-to-production ratio, however,is much shorter than that of the United States with only 41 years of currently-estimated economically recoverable coal compared with 224 years in the United States at current production rates (BP Statistical Review 2009). As the most abundant fossil energy resource in both countries, it is virtually certain that both will continue to rely heavily on coal due to its relatively low cost and the energy security benefits related to not having to import substantial foreign supplies of primary energy.
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Posted on January 15, 2010
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| Sourced From Engineeringnews.co.za |
Speakers at the South African Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) conference on Wednesday agreed that including CCS under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) would be imperative in driving the technology forward, particularly in the developing world.
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Posted on October 3, 2009
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A new report has revealed that a change in the way we manage agricultural land could help sequester a quarter of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions every year
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Posted on July 5, 2009
· in UK
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American Electric Power (AEP) announced that the technology to capture and store carbon underground, which is emitted from the coal-fired power plants, would be ready by 2015 and could be in wide use in the US by 2020, reported Reuters quoting the top executive of the company.
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Posted on June 28, 2009
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As the state that produces the most coal in the country, Wyoming has two new laws taking effect in July that aim to tackle the coal industry’s biggest problem: the carbon dioxide emitted by coal-burning plants.
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Posted on June 28, 2009
· in USA
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Technology to capture carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants and store them underground will be ready by 2015 and could be in wide use in the United States by 2020, according to the top executive at American Electric Power Co Inc.
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Posted on June 28, 2009
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Germany’s grand coalition government has reportedly agreed to a scaled-down draft law on carbon dioxide storage after conservatives objected to some of the measures.
“We’ve reached an agreement,” a coalition source said to Reuters on Friday (9 June), referring to the carbon capture and storage (CCS) law.
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Posted on June 23, 2009
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| Sourced From Industryweek.com |
Options being developed globally include the biochemical conversion of CO2 into algal biofuel, the thermochemical conversion into methanol and the biocatalytic or solar photocatalytic conversion of CO2 to fuels.
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is being hailed as the answer to the globe’s most pressing question: what to do with the 27 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emitted yearly from the burning of fossil fuels? Touted as the most promising interim solution to deal with the greenhouse gas responsible for global warming, CCS still remains unproven, costly and will not be commercially available for another 10-20 years. Meanwhile scientists are exploring alternatives to CCS by capitalizing on CO2 as a commodity instead of treating it as a waste.
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Posted on June 22, 2009
· in Global
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NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- The Department of Energy announced more than $300 million in investments for renewable-energy technologies Thursday, including solar power, carbon capture and storage, and high-efficiency cars and trucks.
The DOE will invest up to $240 million in high-efficiency commercial and passenger vehicles. The projects receiving funding will focus on improving engine efficiency, fuel economy and vehicle system technologies.
The funding also includes up to $22 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the economic stimulus bill passed in February, for 24 new solar projects. The projects, which range from development of automated assembly processes to semiconductor fabrication, will also review funding from private partners.
The DOE also plans to invest up to $27 million in solar installation training.
Nine projects capturing carbon dioxide and storage from coal-fired power plants will receive $11.3 million in DOE funding. The projects will convert fuel into a gaseous mixture of hydrogen and carbon dioxide, removing the CO2 from the combustion process.
-By Christine Buurma, Dow Jones Newswires; 201-938-2061; christine.buurma@ dowjones.com
Posted on June 13, 2009
· in USA
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission will allow a range of advanced renewable energy technologies to compete for funding that had originally been proposed for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) pilot plants, a new document shows.
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Posted on June 10, 2009
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The United Nations Environment Programme released a report last Friday for World Environment Day titled “The Natural Fix? The Role of Ecosystems in Climate Mitigation.” In it, UNEP makes the case for investing in protecting fragile ecosystems as a form of carbon mitigation instead of carbon capture and storage technology. The report highlights the ways in which nature is better at regulating carbon than CCS through the carbon cycle and how preserving nature’s role in carbon regulation will bring greater and cheaper benefits.
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Posted on June 10, 2009
· in Global
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LONGANNET Power Station has launched a pioneering test project on carbon capture technology that could revolutionise future energy generation.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown sent a message of congratulations to the station’s operator ScottishPower, calling it “a historic day for the company and for the country”.
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Posted on June 4, 2009
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The government is committed to reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide to slow climate change and carbon capture and storage is one potential solution. It was not known how the gas could be securely trapped underground until a team of international researchers, led by the University of Manchester, used two specialised techniques to investigate. They measured the ratios of the stable isotopes of carbon dioxide and noble gases in various gas fields and found that underground water is the major carbon dioxide sink in these gas fields and has been for millions of years.
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Posted on June 4, 2009
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As part of Norway’s contribution to the EEA Financial Mechanisms, the Government will earmark EUR 140 million over five years for carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in selected EU member states. This is part of the already allocated Norwegian contribution to the EU. The announcement was made by Prime Minister Stoltenberg today at the Government’s high-level conference Fighting Climate Change with Carbon Capture and Storage in Bergen.
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Posted on June 4, 2009
· in Europe
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Tuesday, Jun 02, 2009
Foster Wheeler AG (Nasdaq: FWLT) announced today that its Milan-based subsidiary Foster Wheeler Italiana S.p.A., part of its Global Engineering and Construction Group, has been awarded a contract by the Rotterdam Climate Initiative (RCI) for the provision of engineering consultancy services related to RCI’s planned carbon capture, storage and utilization solution in the Rotterdam region in The Netherlands.
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Posted on June 3, 2009
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