Dept. of Energy http://1.usa.gov/10FYhDU This EIS evaluates the environmental impacts of a proposal to provide approximately $1 billion in Federal funding (most of it appropriated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) for the FutureGen 2.0 program. The FutureGen 2.0 program would provide financial assistance for the repowering of an existing electricity generator with clean coal … Continue reading »
Tagged with CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) …
Earthquake Triggering and Large-scale Geologic Storage of Carbon Dioxide
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Published online before print June 18, 2012; doi: 10.1073/pnas.1202473109) / by Mark D. Zobacka, and Steven M. Gorelick http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/06/13/1202473109.abstract Despite its enormous cost, large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) is considered a viable strategy for significantly reducing CO2 emissions associated with coal-based electrical power generation and other industrial sources … Continue reading »
Audit Report: The Department of Energy’s Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage Program Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Dept. of Energy, Office of Inspector General http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/OAS-RA-13-15.pdf [From a Greenwire article by John McArdle, sub. req'd] More than two years after the [Dept. of Energy's] Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage Program awarded the $1.5 billion made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, about $623 million has been spent. But with $860 million … Continue reading »
The Limits of Liability in Promoting Safe Geologic Sequestration of CO2
Duke Environmental Law Journal (2013, v22 n1) / by David E. Adelman and Ian J. Duncan http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1189&context=delpf [From a Climate Wire article by Christa Marshall, sub. req'd] The federal government should established a “two-tiered” system outlining who would be responsible in future cases of water contamination and leakage associated with the underground storage of carbon … Continue reading »
The Energy and Environmental Implications of UK More Electric Transition Pathways: A Whole Systems Perspective
Energy Policy (January 2013, v52 p103–116) / by Geoffrey P. Hammond, Hayley R. Howard and Craig I. Jones http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421512007537 [From a Greenwire article by Manuel Quinones, sub. req'd] Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies for power plants, often seen as part of the solution to global climate change, will likely not be as effective as boosters … Continue reading »
United States Carbon Utilization and Storage Atlas, 4th edition, 2012
US DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/carbon_seq/refshelf/atlasIV/Atlas-IV-2012.pdf [From a Climate Wire article by Crista Marshall, sub. req'd] The United States holds several centuries’ worth of space underground for storage of carbon dioxide in rock formations, oil and gas reservoirs, and unminable coal seams, the Department of Energy said in a report yesterday. The new numbers … Continue reading »
Energy Technology Perspectives: Pathways to a Clean Energy System
International Energy Agency (available to RFFers through OECD iLibrary; username and password on library landing site, left frame) http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/energy/energy-technology-perspectives-2012_energy_tech-2012-en ETP 2012 shows: Current progress on clean energy deployment, and what can be done to accelerate it How energy security and low carbon energy are linked How energy systems will become more complex in the future, … Continue reading »
Federal Efforts to Reduce the Cost of Capturing and Storing Carbon Dioxide
Congressional Budget Office http://1.usa.gov/QuMsHc [From a Climate Wire article by Christa Marshall, sub. req'd.] …according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office… Even though the Department of Energy has spent some $6.9 billion on CCS,[carbon capture and sequestration] that amount falls short of what would be necessary to build 200 gigawatts of coal-fired … Continue reading »
Induced Seismicity Potential in Energy Technologies
National Research Council http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13355 [From a Greenwire article by Mike Soraghan, sub. req'd] Hydraulic fracturing presents little risk of causing damaging earthquakes, a government study released today concludes, but earthquakes can be caused by other oil and gas activities, particularly injection of waste from drilling. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) and geothermal energy projects can … Continue reading »
Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Research, Development, and Demonstration at the U.S. Department of Energy
Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42496.pdf …Public concerns over hydraulic fracturing and deep-well injection of produced waters may spill over into concerns about deep-well injection of CO2. How successfully DOE is able to address these types of concerns as the large-scale demonstration projects move forward into their injection phases could affect the future of CCS deployment.
