Tag Archives: CCS

Ignore Keystone XL, focus on clean coal?

Posted on March 18, 2013 by

An update to the previous entry on challenges to scientists doing advocacy: Nocera’s latest editorial (A Real Carbon Solution) is about a coal gasification project in Texas that he bills as a fossil-fuel-industry-friendly contribution to combating climate change (as opposed … Continue reading →

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Bioenergy + CCS: happening sooner than you think?

Posted on May 19, 2012 by

In fact, it’s already happening, with carbon capture and storage (CCS) systems recently deployed at an ethanol plant in Illinois and one in Saskatchewan. This is a big deal!  Bioenergy coupled with CCS has the potential to be net carbon-negative, … Continue reading →

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fracking could destroy CO2 storage rock

Posted on March 11, 2012 by

Didn’t occur to me until reading this article, but the rock that people are proposing to pump CO2 into for long term carbon capture and sequestration is next the same rock that we are fracturing to extract the shale gas.. … Continue reading →

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