Latest Carbon capture and storage Stories

Research highlights key challenges for the government's new CCS strategy Government plans to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies to reduce carbon emissions received a cautious welcome today. A new report concluded that most of the uncertainties facing these technologies can – in principle – be resolved. Carbon capture and storage: realizing the potential? is the culmination of a two-year project funded by the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC). The report assesses...

Lawrence LeBlond for Redorbit.com A leading climate change scientist at NASA is urging the United Kingdom to cease building coal-fired power plants, and is calling for a worldwide tax on all carbon emissions, to tackle the climate change fight head-on, reports BBC Scotland. Dr. James Hansen said, in an interview with BBC Scotland, that averting the worst consequences of human-induced climate change is a “great moral issue” on par with slavery, and added that storing up expensive and...

PROVIDENCE, R.I., April 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- HDS International Corp. (OTCQB: HDSI), a provider of carbon capture, biosequestration and algae biomass production systems and other high-value eco-sustainability solutions, today confirmed that in view of the unusual market activity in shares of common stock of the Company, the Company is not in possession of any material information that has not been disclosed to the public in reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange...

Far from being a pipe dream years away from reality, practical technology for capturing carbon dioxide — the main greenhouse gas — from smokestacks is aiming for deployment at coal-fired electric power generating stations and other sources, scientists said here today. Their presentation at the 243rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, was on a potential advance toward dealing with the 30 billion tons of carbon dioxide released into...

[ Watch the Video ] Brett Smith for RedOrbit.com A group of researchers at MIT, led by Ruben Juanes, published a study this week that showed deep saline aquifers in the United States are capable of storing a century’s worth of carbon dioxide produced by the nation’s coal or gas fueled power plants. The researchers were able to accurately model carbon dioxide storage in the aquifers, or layers of water-bearing permeable rock, that would be located well below those water sources...

SASKATOON, March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - SaskPower and Hitachi Ltd. are partnering to construct a $60 million carbon capture test facility (CCTF) at SaskPower's Shand Power Station in southeastern Saskatchewan. The CCTF will allow international developers to fully evaluate performance of their systems to capture carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired thermal power plants. "This announcement is a double win for the province. Providing a testing facility for these advanced...

The United Nations (UN) global carbon market requires substantial reform because it too often fails to support the projects and people it is meant to help, according to new research from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The research findings are released as the UN, which has designated 2012 the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All, begins a policy dialogue about its Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), under which companies are allocated tradable credits if they...

SEATTLE, March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Mantra Venture Group Ltd. (OTCBB: MVTG) (FRANKFURT: 5MV) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a $3.2M private placement agreement. On February 29, 2012, Mantra Venture Group Ltd.'s wholly owned subsidiary, Mantra Energy Alternatives Ltd. entered into subscription agreements with a number of non-US investors for the sale of 3,200,000 shares of Mantra Energy at a price of CAD $1.00 per share, for total proceeds of CAD $3,200,000. Upon...

CARDIFF, Wales, March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of Glamorgan in South Wales, UK, as coordinator of a collaborative consortium of 13 EU partners, has secured over EUR9 million from the European Commission for a research project which will investigate how coal can be burnt so as to facilitate Carbon Capture and Storage, thereby minimising CO2 emissions to the environment. The Reliable and Efficient Combustion of Oxygen/Coal/Recycled Flue Gas Mixtures...

ALBANY, New York, February 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- New Report Added in ResearchMoz Reports Database Clean Coal Technologies Markets and Trends Worldwide, 2nd Edition [http://www.researchmoz.com/clean-coal-technologies-markets-and-trends-worldwide-2nd-edition-report.html ] Coal is expected to continue to be a dominant fuel in power generation due to its low cost and abundance. Nearly 7 billion tonnes of coal were produced globally in 2010, and over 40% of global...