News tagged with carbon capture
Carbon capture has a sparkling future
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New research shows that for millions of years carbon dioxide has been stored safely and naturally in underground water in gas fields saturated with the greenhouse gas. The findings - published ...
Quicker, easier way to make coal cleaner found
Nov 17, 2008 |
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Construction of new coal-fired power plants in the United States is in danger of coming to a standstill, partly due to the high cost of the requirement — whether existing or anticipated — to capture all emissions of carbon ...
Amazon powers tropical ocean's carbon sink
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 21, 2008 |
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Nutrients from the Amazon River spread well beyond the continental shelf and drive carbon capture in the deep ocean, according to the authors of a multi-year study.
Lehigh receives grant to reduce cost of carbon capture at coal-fired power plants
Nov 20, 2009 |
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Lehigh University's Energy Research Center (ERC) has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop methods of recovering and reusing the heat that would be generated by the carbon-dioxide (CO2) compressio ...
Toshiba to complete construction of carbon capture pilot plant
Sep 29, 2009 |
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Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has completed construction of a pilot plant to support development and validation of its carbon capture technology. Final commissioning testing prior to plant operation ...
Major funding to help cut CO2 emissions
May 11, 2009 |
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The University of Nottingham is to share in £6.9m of research funding to investigate carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies which could drastically cut CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel power stations. The funding fr ...
Durham scientists to tackle CO2 storage in global warming challenge
Jul 23, 2008 |
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Scientists at Durham University (UK) are working on new ways of storing CO2 emissions underground to help in the fight against global warming.
