Two birds with one stone
Science rarely works the way it does in the movies – with a flash of inspiration followed by a musical montage of furious scrawling in notebooks and laboratory hijinks: But a pair of University of...
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Carbon capture, without the coal
Photo via Archer Daniels Midland. Most of the focus on carbon capture technology involves coal-fired power plants. But what’s being touted as America’s first large-scale industrial carbon capture...
View ArticleVideo: CO2 to fuel
An energy company in Iceland says it has become the first in the world to produce renewable fuel from CO2 emissions on a commercial scale (via Reuters): The process essentially combines carbon dioxide...
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Indiana coal project proceeds, despite changing economics
(Photo by Kentucky Photo File via Creative Commons) May 10, 2012 By Kari Lydersen To Indiana attorney Jerry Polk, a New York finance company’s proposal for a coal gasification plant in Rockport,...
View ArticleFutureGen carbon capture project affirms main Illinois storage site
© 2012 E&E Publishing, LLC Reprinted with permission By Christa Marshall The backers of a major emissions-control project said Monday that Morgan County, Illinois, will remain the “preferred”...
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Could oil recovery create a market for carbon capture?
(Photo by Shell via Creative Commons) ©2012 E&E Publishing, LLC Republished with permission By Saqib Rahim A key carbon-cutting technology may have met its savior: domestic oil drilling. Last week,...
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Coal’s backup plan: Ignite it underground
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has tested underground coal gasification at this site near Hanna, Wyoming and other locations. (Photo via LLNL) As low-cost natural gas displaces more and...
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Ohio State’s carbon-capture breakthrough still has long road to adoption
Ohio State University Prof. Liang-Shih Fan (right) shows Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy Charles McConnell OSU’s coal direct chemical looping reactor. (Photo by Niranjani Deshpande / Department...
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FutureGen alliance fights back, releases CO2 pipeline route
A coal train in northern Illinois. (Photo by contemplative imaging via Creative Commons) ©2013 E&E Publishing, LLC Republished with permission By Christa Marshall The FutureGen Industrial Alliance...
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As Indiana gasification plant stalls, so does CO2 pipeline
A computer rendering of a proposed coal-to-gas plant near Rockport, Indiana. (Image via Indiana Gasification) ©2013 E&E Publishing, LLC Republished with permission By Christa Marshall A major...
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Report: Carbon capture won’t save Midwest, East Coast coal plants
This map from a Department of Energy report shows a possible network of CO2 pipelines if carbon capture were expanded in the U.S. ©2013 E&E Publishing, LLC Republished with permission By Katherine...
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With climate rule looming, some say Congress should fund carbon capture
A carbon-capture facility in Germany. (Photo by Vattenfall via Creative Commons) ©2013 E&E Publishing, LLC Republished with permission By Evan Lehmann The elixir for climate regulations has long...
View ArticleFutureGen officials say Sierra Club complaint jeopardizes project
©2014 E&E Publishing, LLC Republished with permission By Jeffrey Tomich Efforts to develop the FutureGen “clean coal” demonstration project in western Illinois cleared a major hurdle last month...
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Lasers scan for leaks at Illinois carbon sequestration site
A Department of Energy initiative uses lasers to search for leaks from an Illinois carbon capture site. (Photo courtesy Harris Corporation) A laser technology capable of detecting carbon dioxide...
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