Carbon capture and storage: the black sheep of green energy?
Mixed fortunes for this unloved carbon-cutting technology
CCS
White Rose wilts under green cuts
September 2015 saw a major setback in plans to deploy carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the United Kingdom, as Drax Power withdrew support from…
A catalyst for carbon capture and storage
The lack of political direction has been the greatest obstacle to the deployment of Carbon Capture and Storage, writes Graeme Sweeney. Dr. Graeme Sweeney is…
Five Projects To Produce Fresh Water From CO2 Storage Sites
The Department of Energy announced the selection of five projects that will study the feasibility of using salty water – or brine – from carbon dioxide…
Carbon Capture and Sequestration Still in Fledgling Stage as Commercial Adoption Is Slow
Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is a fledgling technology still mostly relegated to demonstration projects in the U.S. and other parts of the globe. While not…
Biomass power generation the key to carbon-negative energy, study concludes
In California, a new UC Berkeley study shows that if biomass electricity production is combined with carbon capture and sequestration in the western United States,…
Corralling Carbon Before It Belches From Stack
So much soot belched from the old power plant here that Mike Zeleny would personally warn the neighbors. “If the wind was blowing in a…