Carbon dioxide capture and storage: a status report
Fossil fuel combustion is the largest source of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. As a result of combustion, essentially all of the fuel carbon is emitted to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>), along with small amounts of methane and, in some cases, nitrous oxide. It has been axiomatic that reducing anthropogenic GHG emissions requires reducing fossil-fuel use. However, that relationship may no longer be as highly coupled in the future. There is an emerging understanding that CO<sub>2</sub> capture and storage (CCS) technology offers a way of using fossil fuels while reducing CO<sub>2</sub> emissions by 85% or more. While CCS is not the 'silver bullet' that in and of itself will solve the climate change problem, it is a powerful addition to the portfolio of technologies that will be needed to address climate change. The goal of this Commentary is to describe CCS technology in simple terms: how it might be used, how it might fit into longer term mitigation strategies, and finally, the policy issues that its emergence creates. All of these topics are discussed in much greater detail in the recently published Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (SRCCS) (IPCC, 2005).
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2006
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Authors: | Bernstein, Lenny ; Lee, Arthur ; Crookshank, Steven |
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Climate Policy. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 1469-3062. - Vol. 6.2006, 2, p. 241-246
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Taylor & Francis Journals |
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