Carbon capture and storage including coal-fired power plants:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Nova Science Publishers c2010
Series:Environmental science, engineering and technology series
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Online Access:FAW01
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Capturing CO2 from Coal-Fired Power Plants: Challenges for a Comprehensive Strategy -- Escaping Radioactivity from Coal-fired Power Plants -- Introducing CCS: Potential Changes in Coal-Fired Power Plant Design, Operation and Regulation in a Carbon Constrained Future -- Spatial Impacts of Tradable Permit Markets: The Case of Sulfur Dioxide Emissions -- The Carbon Cycle: Implications for Climate Change and Congress -- Are Carbon Dioxide Emissions Rising More Rapidly than Expected? -- Climate Change: Federal Actions Will Greatly Affect the Viability of Carbon Capture and Storage As A Key Mitigation Option
"Nationally-recognized studies and our contacts with a diverse group of industry representatives, nongovernmental organizations, and academic researchers show that key barriers to CCS deployment include (1) underdeveloped and costly CO2 capture technology and (2) regulatory and legal uncertainties over CO2 capture, injection, and storage. Among the key technological barriers are a lack of experience in capturing significant amounts of CO2 from power plants and the significant cost of capturing CO2, particularly from existing coal-fired power plants, which are the single largest source of CO2 emissions in the United States. Compounding these technological issues are regulatory and legal uncertainties, including uncertainty regarding liability for CO2 leakage and ownership of CO2 once injected. According to the IPCC, the National Academy of Sciences, and other knowledgeable authorities, another barrier is the absence of a national strategy to control CO2 emissions (emissions trading plan, CO2 emissions tax, or other mandatory control of CO2 emissions), without which the electric utility industry has little incentive to capture and store its CO2 emissions. Moreover, according to key agency officials, the absence of a national strategy has also deterred their agencies from addressing other important practical issues, such as resolving how stored CO2 would be treated in a future CO2 emissions trading plan."--pub. desc
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 182 p.)
ISBN:1607411962
1612098703
9781607411963
9781612098708

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