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Climate efficiency
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Information about Carbon Capture and Storage - CCS. Energy companies boast that CCS is going to save the climate from large volumes of CO2. Reductions between 85% and 95% are heard again and again. Reduction rates of this magnitude, however, are theoretical reductions achievable exclusively in the capture stage of the CCS process. Little is said about the substantial greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the total CCS process. How much CO2 can be reduced with CCS? In order to answer this question all p...
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Environment
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Information about Carbon Capture and Storage - CCS. In addition to its CO2 effects, which are addressed under. CCS is a CO2 reduction technology with a number of other environmental impacts. They are the result of technology’s inevitable additional use of energy on the one hand and the production of a variety of physical systems such as the capture installations, the transport infrastructure and the injection facilities on the other side. See CCS chain in this. Solid and liquid waste,. If the energy cons...
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Economics
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Information about Carbon Capture and Storage - CCS. THE ECONOMICS OF CCS. CCS is expensive. There is no disagreement about that. But how expensive is hard to establish:. In the industry’s promotional material these estimates can be found:. In demonstration projects 60-90 euros per tonne of reduced CO2. Full-scale projects (in 2030) 30-45 euros per tonne of CO2 reduced. But the first example that is more thoroughly calculated from Mongstad in Norway gives a cost of approx. What is meant by the climate-eco...
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Consultations and comments
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Information about Carbon Capture and Storage - CCS. Published comments and presentations on CCS. From NOAH Friends of the Earth Denmark. Review of the EU CCS-directive. Comments by NOAH Friends of the Earth Denmark. Graeme Sweeney: We must reset our approach to CCS - interview on Euractiv.com. The comment has been removed - september 2014 - Read it. Comment on Commentvisions.com. Public meeting at the Klimaforum09 during COP15 in Copenhagen. Capture and Storage (CCS): a new solution or another problem?
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Liability
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Information about Carbon Capture and Storage - CCS. What seems to be the problem? Who has the financial liability for the CO2 -storages in the short and long term? The liability issue concerns financial responsibility for stored CO2 in the short and long term. IPCC estimates that more than 99% of the stored CO2 is "very likely" to remain in storage after 100 years and that over 99% of the stored CO2 is "likely" to remain in storage after 1000 years. (IPCC Special Report on CCS, 2005, p. 246). A) all avai...
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NOAH's positions
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Information about Carbon Capture and Storage - CCS. Friends of the Earth Denmark. S positions on CCS. Friends of the Earth Denmark. S position on the environmental impacts of CCS. Friends of the Earth Denmark. Further on we find that the EU CCS Directive is incompatible with EU environmental policy for example the principle of preventive action, the principle of rectifying environmental damage at the source and the principle that the polluter should pay. Friends of the Earth Denmark. Does not believe tha...
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Timing
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Information about Carbon Capture and Storage - CCS. There is broad scientific agreement on a goal of limiting global warming to no more than 2.0 degrees Celsius, if extreme climatic effects must be avoided and self-reinforcing climate change begins to materialize. These declarations are missing a statement about the likelihood that this goal can be achieved. Representative Concentration Pathway ). Should this goal be kept, then actions to ensure that greenhouse gas emissions peak by 2015 are crucial....
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Energy Scenarios
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Information about Carbon Capture and Storage - CCS. CCS will - should it become a reality enhance the use of coal all over the world. Measured per unit of energy coal is one of the most greenhouse gas-intensive fuels. Beside the CO2, combustion of coal releases a wide array of pollutants such as heavy metals, sulphur and nitrogen compounds, hydrocarbons and particulates. See figure below from IEAs. Key World Energy Statistics 2013. TPES (Total Primary Energy Supply). The large majority of political parti...
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CCS as geoengineering
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Information about Carbon Capture and Storage - CCS. CCS as a geoengineering practice. Carbon capture and storage can be considered a geoengineering or climate engineering practice as far as it is an attempt to counter the climate change threat by means of an engineering technics rather than engaging with the root causes of anthropogenic climate change. For the proponents of CCS the variant called BECCS or Bio Energy with CCS is the most promising of promises. That BECCS does not take into account that th...
