NUMBYism
The world’s first clean coal power station (discussed earlier here on LP) has been operating for a little while now. It’s working fine – except for one little problem. All the CO2 is still ending up in the atmosphere. As [...]
How green was my budget?
If you judged by press releases, you’d reckon this was the greenest budget ever. And it is indeed good in parts, though not nearly as good as you might think. The first thing to note is that the CPRS targets [...]
Clean coal mandated in UK
It’s amazing what a crisis can prompt a government to do. Aside from having the gumption to increase tax on the richest to help pay for the massive deficits caused by the recession, British Labour has bitten the bullet on [...]
Otway CO2 sequestration trial "working"
The Age has a story about Australia’s first carbon sequestration trial, about half way between Warrnambool and Port Campbell on Victoria’s south-west coast. The trial is apparently working well, with 50,000 tonnes of CO2 stored without significant incident. This earlier [...]
Rudd chucks $100 million at a global clean coal institute
Yesterday Rudd officially launched the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute in Canberra. Christine Milne: I don’t believe that carbon capture and storage will ever be economically viable. I think renewables will leapfrog that technology in the timeframe. It is [...]
Who killed clean coal?
Joe Romm at Climate Progress has a fascinating story about a US Congressional inquiry into the cancellation of the FutureGen project, a massive demonstration of an integrated, commercial-scale clean coal plant (discussed earlier on LP). Staffers of the majority (Democratic) [...]
Emissions tech tidbits
Another CCS project is getting underway in Australia, this time in Queensland. This time, the project involves retrofitting the Callide A power station with oxyfuel technology. This is the same technology used in the pilot plant in Germany mentioned in [...]
Carbon sequestration bill passed in VIC parliament
Amongst the other stuff that almost went without notice over the past few days, the Victorian parliament passed legislation covering carbon sequestration, with the support of both Labor and the Coalition. One of the stronger critiques of CCS is who [...]
A clean coal power station (finally)
Image Credit: Sven Dorum/VISUM
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