Category Archives: Carbon capture

Enviros approve next generation coal plant

By melissalott | Published: April 20, 2010
Success for clean coal with enviros approval of next gen coal plant? On Friday, Amanda wrote a piece on new technology that might make carbon capture and sequestration economically viable in the near-term. Yesterday’s announcement by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and  Tenaska Inc. show the importance of this type of win for the future of [...]
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Economic CO2 Capture… GASP!

By ADC | Published: April 16, 2010
As the largest source of CO2 emissions in the United States, scientists have long sought a process to clean up the coal-fired power industry. Unfortunately the solutions to capture and sequester carbon have yet to be economically feasible without the government placing a hefty price on carbon emissions. The new Silicon Valley start-up, Calera, claims [...]
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