CARBON SEQUESTRATION: Ohio test project could pave way for future CCS technologies (07/01/2008)

A new $92.8 million carbon sequestration project in Ohio could store half of the greenhouse gases released by industries in Ohio and neighboring states during the next century.

Geology Prime for CO2 Project

If storing carbon dioxide in coal-bed methane reservoirs proves feasible, the San Juan Basin could be the first place in the world that the process will be used on a commercial scale.

The Evolution of Carbon Capture Technology Part 2

Carbon capture may be the future, so technology development and testing are underway today. Unless something dramatic happens to alter the political landscape within the next few years, it seems all but certain that coal-fired power plants will someday hav

The Evolution of Carbon Capture Technology: Part 1

Technologies are being developed that hold the promise of meeting future carbon capture mandates. They won't be cheap. This is the first of a two-part series on CO2 capture technologies and projects. Part two will be published in the May issue of Power Eng

Coal Study Moves Ahead With Calif. OK

Southern California Edison (SCE) will spend $50 million over two years to study the feasibility of combining several advanced coal technologies at full commercial scale. The decision to move forward with the technology assessment followed approval of the p

Hawaii Joins Energy Dept. Carbon Group

WASHINGTON, June 10 (UPI) -- Hawaii has joined a regional carbon sequestration program. The state became the 42nd and the most recent to join the U.S. Department of Energy Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Program, the Energy Department announce

Daniel Weintraub: Building a better power plant -- with no emissions

It turns out that producing electrical power without pollution is, well, rocket science. At least it helps to know something about how rocket engines work. A Rancho Cordova company founded by a group of retired aerospace engineers has just received fund

Don't want to release your CO2? Bury it.

AFP, 25 May 2008 - With planet Earth engaged in a heated race against global warming, "carbon capture and storage" has brought a ray of hope, and a Norwegian gas platform is leading the way. The Sleipner platform in the North Sea, a mammoth steel and ce

Clean Energy Systems to supply CO2 for underground tests

Rancho Cordova-based Clean Energy Systems Inc. will supply carbon dioxide from its power plant near Bakersfield for a project testing underground storage of greenhouse gases.

New Kern power plant to capture, bury pollution

One of the world’s first emissions-free power plants will be built in Kern County in the next few years as part of a government-funded test to capture carbon dioxide from large sources and store it underground, the California Energy Commission has announce

The Status of Carbon Sequestration

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DOE Awards $126.6 Million to Carbon Sequestration Projects

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) yesterday announced awards of over $126.6 million to two carbon sequestration projects designed to demonstrate the potential for permanent storage of over one million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) in geologic formations.

CARBON: Senate panel explores sequestration

The rapid development of carbon capture and sequestration technology is critical to the survival of the coal industry in North Dakota and Montana, two Democratic senators from those states said yesterday.

Canadian study pushes carbon capture

Canada's best choice for emissions reduction is carbon capture, a recent study said. An independent study recently completed by The Delphi Group ranks carbon capture and storage as one of Canada's most significant carbon dioxide reduction opportunities,

Top House Dems offer bill to stop coal plants

Two top House Democrats introduced legislation today that would prevent the permitting of coal-fired power plants that cannot capture and sequester most greenhouse-gas emissions.

EPRI's Courtright discusses economic, tech challenges facing carbon capture

Despite the Department of Energy's decision to not move forward with FutureGen -- a large-scale carbon capture and sequestration project -- several smaller projects are being developed throughout the country to advance CCS technology. There are still many

Appropriators look for cooperative approach to energy R&D

From the deployment of lithium ion batteries to redundancy in the restructured FutureGen program to biofuels, House appropriators yesterday accused the Energy Department of failing to produce results with its research budgets.

Elon Musk, Braemar Back Ocean Seeding Startup Climos

San Francisco-based Climos said it raised the Series A round of $3.5 million to complete an environmental impact study, develop workshops with research organizations, and apply for international permits to start its project. Like Planktos, Climos plans to

Canadian Emission Rules Target New Oil Sands Plant

Canada announced new rules to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on Monday, targeting future oil sands facilities and power plants, in a plan immediately derided by environmentalists as too little, too late.

Nippon Oil Vietnam venture gains record CO2 credits

Japan's Nippon Oil Corp said on Friday that its joint Vietnamese oilfield project has been awarded 4.49 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emission credits by the U.N. Clean Development Mechanism programme.

Governing the United States of Coal

The hottest topic at the meeting of the National Governors Association in Washington this weekend was energy, particularly how to figure out a way to cost-effectively store the carbon dioxide produced when power plants generate electricity. Carbon seque

Future Tech: A burial might be just the thing to deep-six global warming

Ten thousand feet below the Pacific's waves, 100 miles off the coast of Monterey, California, a large dollop of carbon dioxide spills over the edge of a beaker and lands on the ocean floor. But a camera in a vehicle nearby tracks the gas as it flows like t

"Climate Change Solution?" a feature article in High Country News

Beneath the Columbia River Basin, a real-life trial of the uncertain science of carbon sequestration

DOE is dropping FutureGen support, Ill. lawmakers say

Illinois lawmakers said yesterday that the Bush administration is dropping support for FutureGen, the $1.8 billion prototype coal-fired power plant aimed at demonstrating carbon capture and sequestration technologies.

FutureGen Alliance CEO reacts to DOE decision to hold approval of carbon capture site

Last December, the FutureGen Alliance announced Mattoon, Illinois as the site for construction of a government-funded coal-fired power plant that will use carbon capture and sequestration technology. Following the announcement, the Department of Energy did

DOE casts doubt on FutureGen plans

The Energy Department today warned of a reassessment and restructuring of the massive FutureGen carbon capture project, even as an official restated the department's commitment to it as a "cornerstone" of the Bush administration's energy security plan.

Engineering hurdles, costs loom for carbon-capture efforts

Existing technologies can capture carbon dioxide from coal-burning power plants, but significant costs and engineering hurdles remain for separating the heat-trapping greenhouse gas from other emissions.

Researchers look at process to make coal burn cleaner

Global warming already may have hit Utah hard, but a well-financed research project headed by a University of Utah scientist is trying to do something about it. The hit was not delivered directly by climate change. It's a financial pounding by the stat

Central Valley farmers new crop may be carbon

As scientists discuss the potential impact of global climate change, and regulators implement laws designed to slow it, farmers may find they have a new money crop: carbon credits.

Energy bill to boost Montana projects

A long-awaited energy bill that would boost vehicle fuel efficiency standards and Montana's budding ethanol industry passed the House on Tuesday and is on its way to President Bush for his signature.

‘More Than We’ve Ever Done’: A new law lays out an ambitious plan to reduce American greenhouse gas emissions. Can it work?

President Bush dubbed it a "major step." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hailed it as "a moment of change." But despite the bipartisan praise, meeting the aims of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007—signed into law last week—is not going to be easy

Coal's a keeper, so let's invest in cleaner technology, energy execs say

U.S. efforts to expand renewable and low-carbon energy must account for a simple truth: Coal is not going away, top energy executives told governors this weekend.