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Carbon Capture Takes Next Steps to Combat Climate Change

February 25, 2018 by Wayne Creed 2 Comments

President Donald Trump’s budget bill, signed into law earlier this month provides more incentives for capturing and storing carbon emissions.

Energy researchers have concluded that on many projects the boosted tax credit could finally tip the scales for a technology that’s long proved far too expensive.

The provision won’t completely offset the high cost of retrofitting power plants, though it will certainly lower the price tag. But it could make an immediate difference in cutting emissions from a source that’s otherwise very difficult to address: the industrial sector, which produces a significant portion of the greenhouse-gas emissions in the United States.

Most energy researchers believe carbon capture and storage will need to be a significant piece of any realistic plan to address the growing dangers of climate change. A number of studies have found that without this technology, it’s unlikely the world can prevent temperatures from rising more than 2 ˚C.

Image courtesy The Post Millennial

Captured carbon dioxide can be stored under geological formations or injected into drilling sites to draw up the last bits of oil. Researchers and startups are also exploring ways to use carbon dioxide to produce alternative fuels, building materials, and other products. The tax credit is likely to stimulate significant investment in these emerging technologies, Friedmann says.

The measure was sponsored by an unlikely coalition of climate deniers and hawks—notably Senators John Barrasso, a Republican from Wyoming, and Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island—and supported by unions, environmental groups, and coal companies.

The measure provides a tax credit of $50 for every metric ton of carbon dioxide buried underground and $35 for every ton put to work in other ways. Companies will have six years to begin qualifying projects, and a dozen from the time they begin operations to claim the credits.

Filed Under: Bottom, Environment, Environmental Activism, News

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  1. tony sacco says

    February 25, 2018 at 11:09 pm

    this planet earth since the ‘Big Boom’ has seen many climate changes, the forty days of continuous rain, the ice age, the dry spell or the dust bowl of the thirties, the iceberg that sunk the Titanic was the iceberg caused by carbon, of course not, it is our government scaring us to go solar and wind. If you remember the sailboat industry, as soon as the combustion engine was invented, the sailboat industry thousand of sailmaker lost their jobs, they were retrained to build cars, this is the idea of the Government, have the coal miners re-trained to work in solar and wind projects.

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  2. Manuel Simao says

    June 11, 2018 at 5:37 pm

    Silly solutions. Bubling CO2 in the ocean will increase acidification and destroy shell life. Are you crazy?

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