Image source: Scientific American (courtesy of American Electric Power).
Two pieces of news provide evidence of a fightback by coal. American Electric Power’s Mountaineer plant in West Virginia is reporting significant success for its small scale carbon capture project. And the UK has just licensed exploratory boreholes for offshore Underground Coal Gasification (UCG), a woefully under-researched technology that may make CO2 sequestration easier. The scale of the challenge facing the globe’s coal users is enormous but with determined research and development, the fuel may remain usable for power generation in a low-carbon world.
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Tags: Alstom, American Electric Power, carbon capture, carbon reduction initiatives, Clean Coal Ltd, fossil fuels, Linc Energy, Powerfuel, Vattenfall
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| Renault’s Zoom concept electric car. Image source: Auto Express. |
Most major countries in Europe have decided to focus on one or two technologies to reduce carbon emissions. By making concentrated investments in one or two promising areas these countries are likely to achieve substantial cost reductions and rapid increases in deployment. By contrast, the UK is dabbling ineffectually in several areas and achieving little. Despite having large resources of renewable energy sources, the UK’s effort is diffuse, trivial in scope and clearly insufficient. We have almost the lowest percentage of our energy coming from low-carbon sources in the EU.
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Tags: Andasol, carbon capture, carbon reduction initiatives, domestic, Modec, motoring, National Grid, Nissan, politics, Renault, renewables, Siemens, Smith Electric Vehicles, Suzlon, Vattenfall, Vestas
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