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Where is CO2 Stored?...CCS is a type of carbon abatement technology in which the carbon dioxide produced by fossil-fuel burning power plants is trapped and then stored underground. It is so far unproven on a commercial scale. ...
...Greenpeace’s new report systematically debunks all of the coal industry’s claims about CCS, demonstrating that we have no time to waste on this dubious technology if we are to avert the most drastic effects of global warming.
"Carbon capture and storage is a scam. It is the ultimate coal industry pipe dream,” said the report’s author, Emily Rochon, climate and energy campaigner at Greenpeace International. “Governments and businesses need to reduce their emissions—not search for excuses to keep burning coal.” ...
...A general problem is that long term predictions about submarine or underground storage security are very difficult and uncertain and CO2 might leak from the storage into the atmosphere...
It does seem like the technology does have some potential, and could be worked out eventually, but wouldn't we be better off just spending the government money directly on alternative energy (e.g.: Solar & Wind) rather than trying to prolong the coal burning? The carbon is already well sequestered in the coal!...The environmental effects of oceanic storage are generally negative, but poorly understood. ...
johnr,First of all, it seems incredibly stupid for the UK to shut off so many of their nuclear plants only to replace them with coal plants. I thought they were on track to replace them all with wind power - but given a choice between coal and nuclear, I see nuclear as the lesser evil. We all know there's really no such thing as "clean coal" since coal by necessity involves large-scale land removal.
Secondly, I'm concerned about the CO2 they would have to pump underground. It's likely to begin leaking out eventually and such leaks would probably go undetected. It might even pose a potential disaster for nearby caves.
With so many well educated people in the world today, I find it puzzling why governments can't seem to find the right people (with an appropriate educational background) to fill important cabinet posts...Miliband is the son of Marion Kozak and the late Marxist theorist Ralph Miliband (son of Polish-Jewish parents from Warsaw) who fled Belgium during World War II. He went to Haverstock Comprehensive School in the Chalk Farm area of London. As a teenager, he reviewed films and plays on LBC Radio's Young London programme as one of its "Three o'Clock Reviewers". He read PPE at Corpus Christi College, Oxford gaining a BA, and Economics at the LSE where he obtained an MSc.
The chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Jon Wellinghoff, said today of new coal and nuclear plants, “We may not need any, ever....
Nuclear is indeed wildly expensive, more expensive than the best solar today.... And new dirty coal is climate destroying and likely to be increasingly viewed as unfinanceable.
“I think baseload capacity is going to become an anachronism,” he said. “Baseload capacity really used to only mean in an economic dispatch, which you dispatch first, what would be the cheapest thing to do. Well, ultimately wind’s going to be the cheapest thing to do, so you’ll dispatch that first.”He added, “People talk about, ‘Oh, we need baseload.’ It’s like people saying we need more computing power, we need mainframes. We don’t need mainframes, we have distributed computing.”
First of all, it seems incredibly stupid for the UK to shut off so many of their nuclear plants only to replace them with coal plants. I thought they were on track to replace them all with wind power - but given a choice between coal and nuclear, I see nuclear as the lesser evil. We all know there's really no such thing as "clean coal" since coal by necessity involves large-scale land removal.
It's too bad that Ed Miliband (British Secretary for Energy & Climate Change) didn't study science in school...
With so many well educated people in the world today, I find it puzzling why governments can't seem to find the right people (with an appropriate educational background) to fill important cabinet posts...
I think that this might help illustrate your point:First of all, it seems incredibly stupid for the UK to shut off so many of their nuclear plants only to replace them with coal plants. I thought they were on track to replace them all with wind power - but given a choice between coal and nuclear, I see nuclear as the lesser evil. We all know there's really no such thing as "clean coal" since coal by necessity involves large-scale land removal.
Secondly, I'm concerned about the CO2 they would have to pump underground. It's likely to begin leaking out eventually and such leaks would probably go undetected. It might even pose a potential disaster for nearby caves.
Mr Miliband said nuclear was one of a "trinity" of future fuel options, alongside renewables and clean coal, which would help to secure the UK's energy security and reduce its dependence on imported gas.
Clean coal technology aims to trap and store CO2 emissions from coal plants underground, cutting pollution levels. However, it remains commercially unproven.
"We need all of them in the long term because of the challenge of the low-carbon future is so significant," he said.