Amid economic concerns, carbon capture faces a hazy future.
For a world dependent on fossil fuels, carbon capture and storage could be a key to controlling greenhouse gas emissions. But the technology meant to scrub carbon dioxide pollution from the air is experiencing stiff headwinds that have stalled many projects at the bottom line.
UN’s Clean Development Mechanism calls for CCS experts
The CDM Executive Board at its sixty-seventh meeting agreed to establish the Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Working Group (CCS WG).
Trees Absorb Less Carbon in Warming World Than Experts Have Assumed
By Robert Krier, InsideClimate News
Trees may not be the planetary saviors people have been counting on in a warming climate.
A new study shows that while trees certainly help counteract rising temperatures, they are absorbing 3.4 percent less carbon than had been assumed in models used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports. More CO2 in the atmosphere means more warming.
According to the study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, it all comes down to how the trees react to sunlight.
CSU study: Trees dont clean as much as thought.
A new Colorado State University study of when and how trees absorb carbon could have far-reaching effects on years of previous and current climate change research. The culmination of seven years of research has revealed that trees trap in their leaves less carbon dioxide than once thought.
Siemens and Masdar Institute CCS research project completed
Siemens and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology have successfully conmpleted their first CCS research collaboration project.
Technology Centre Mongstad opens in Norway
Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM), the largest and most advanced centre for testing and development of carbon capture technologies, has been opened in Norway.
U.S. DOE sponsored project aims to reduce CCS costs
Results from the project at the Department of Energy’s National Carbon Capture Center (NCCC) may ultimately lead to lower-cost carbon-capture technologies.
New method of carbon capture researched at Heriot-Watt University
Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh has been awarded funding to investigate a potential new method of carbon capture.
