Articles containing the tag ‘oxyfuel’

12 October 2009: In UK, excellent news on Kingsnorth and greater honesty on energy costs, but a step change still needed

Posted in Comment on 10/12/2009 12:27 pm by Stephen Tindale

Last Friday Eon, announced that it is postponing its plan to build a new power station in Kent that would have demonstrated that carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology can be retrofitted. The same day, the energy regulator, the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem), published a report accepting that energy prices would have to increase, but would increase much less under a move to low-carbon energy than under a scenario under which the UK relies on gas and oil. And today, the Committee on Climate Change launches its first report on how the UK is doing on meetings its carbon budgets – basic message: ‘not nearly well enough’.

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Carbon capture and storage

Posted in Technology on 06/23/2009 08:26 am by Stephen Tindale
This diagram was taken from the Scottish Centre for Carbon Storage website.

Coal has a very high carbon content, so is a major source of greenhouse gasses and the economic costs of polluting the atmosphere are not borne by the polluter, In economic jargon, ‘the externalities are not internalised’.

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How the EU can speed up CCS

Posted in Policy, Technology on 10/12/2009 11:55 am by Stephen Tindale
BRITAIN DIDCOT POWER PLANT

Rapid and extensive demonstration of carbon capture and storage (CCS) is necessary to show that it works as well at larger scales as it does at smaller scales, and that it works throughout the generation, capture, transport and storage process.

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