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Undated: Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a technology that can capture up to 90% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions produced from the use of fossil fuels in electricity generation and industrial processes, preventing the carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere.
Furthermore, the use of CCS with renewable biomass is one of the few carbon abatement technologies that can be used in a 'carbon-negative' mode – actually taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
The CCS chain consists of three parts; capturing the carbon dioxide, transporting the carbon dioxide, and securely storing the carbon dioxide emissions, underground in depleted oil and gas fields or deep saline aquifer formations.
First, capture technologies allow the separation of carbon dioxide from gases produced in electricity generation and industrial processes by one of three methods: pre-combustion capture, post-combustion capture and oxyfuel combustion.
Carbon dioxide is then transported by pipeline or by ship for safe storage. Millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide are already transported annually for commercial purposes by road tanker, ship and pipelines. The U.S. has four decades of experience of transporting carbon dioxide by pipeline for enhanced oil recovery projects.
The carbon dioxide is then stored in carefully selected geological rock formation that are typically located several kilometres below the earth's surface.
At every point in the CCS chain, from production to storage, industry has at its disposal a number of process technologies that are well understood and have excellent health and safety records. The commercial deployment of CCS will involve the widespread adoption of these CCS techniques, combined with robust monitoring techniques and Government regulation.
http://www.ccsassociation.org/what-is-ccs/
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February 9: Trump signed a landmark bill that could create the next big technologies to fight climate change
Donald Trump is no champion of the environment. But this morning, in signing a bill to continue funding the US government, he also ended up supporting two pieces of new legislation that could create the next big technologies to fight climate change.
Trump found himself in this situation because of the peculiar way in which the US government works. Every so often, both houses of the US congress have to pass a bill to continue funding the government. This bill needs a super majority, which means that even though Republicans have a majority in both houses, they have to get some Democrats on their side.
https://qz.com/1203803/donald-trump-signed-a-landmark-bill-to-support-carbon-capture-and-nuclear-power/
December 5: The Trump administration will propose scrapping an Obama-era mandate that new coal-fired power plants use carbon-capture technology, removing a major barrier to constructing the facilities, according to a person familiar with the plans.
Although the technology has been used at oil refineries and other facilities—including a coal-fired unit at an NRG Energy Inc. plant in Texas—it has not been widely deployed in the electricity sector.
The Obama administration regulation, finalized in 2015, imposed carbon dioxide limits on new and modified coal-fired power plants that could not be met without installing some kind of carbon-capture technology.
https://phys.org/news/2018-12-trump-carbon-capture-mandate-coal-source.html
December 11: The carbon capture industry is smarting from the Trump administration's determination last week that their product is not ready for prime time and looking to prove that it is feasible and worthwhile to trap carbon emissions from power plants and industries.
“The Trump administration is implying that carbon capture is not achievable,” Matt Lucas, an associate director at Carbon180, a nonprofit group pushing the technology, told the Washington Examiner. “That's not consistent with 25 years of experience with major carbon capture projects, including those in the power sector.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/carbon-capture-industry-says-trump-epa-is-wrong-to-underestimate-them
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February 21: Approximately 49 million tons of CO2 could be cut via carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) in the power sector — equivalent to removing 7 million cars from the roads — by 2030, according to a Clean Air Task Force (CATF) report published this week.
The oil and gas industry has experimented with CO2 removal technology since the 1930s to purify process streams from CO2. Now similar technology could be used to ease the transition from fossil fuels to more sustainable energy sources.
CCUS is considered an important medium- and long-term means of reducing carbon emissions in fossil fuel–intensive industries. The International Energy Agency (IEA) places 32% of the responsibility of reaching carbon neutrality by 2060 — a pledge many governments, including California's and the EU's, already support — on CCUS.
https://www.axios.com/carbon-capture-could-be-key-to-decarbonizing-us-fossil-fuels-63199532-e222-42b1-a3ba-00d9c28e3bb3.html
May 9: Iceland’s Radical Plan to Slow Climate Change
Geothermal engineers are turning CO2 into fizzy water and injecting it into rocks—and it’s working.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/a27410266/iceland-fighting-climate-change-carbon-storage/
May 9: Empty North Sea gas fields to be used to bury 10m tonnes of C02
Ports of Rotterdam, Antwerp and Ghent to pipe greenhouse gas into vast under-sea reservoir
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/09/empty-north-sea-gas-fields-bury-10m-tonnes-c02-eu-ports
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