SeekerBlog

An excellent short brief:

Several recent congressional hearings on the deployment of carbon capture and storage technology require a look at why CCS is necessary and how best to implement it.

Just a reminder — the MIT Future of Coal study concluded that it is critical to fast-track CCS at industrial scale. We need to know how well it works, and what it really costs. By “we” I really mean those making the new plant investment decisions — notably U.S., Chinese, Indian and Brazilian utility executives. It is those decisions that continue to drive new dirty-coal plant startups every week. And if CCS looks uneconomic we will have to drastically rethink our way to a low-carbon economy — making nuclear even more attractive.