Clean Coal Technologies Promise Greenhouse Gas Reduction

Clean Coal Technologies hold great promise to improve the efficiency of coal extraction, along with reducing greenhouse emissions, according to a new report released by Energy Business Reports, “Clean Coal Technologies Market Potential.”
 
Dec. 2, 2010 - PRLog -- Phoenix, AZ, – Clean Coal Technologies hold great promise to improve the efficiency of coal extraction, along with reducing greenhouse emissions, according to a new report released by Energy Business Reports, “Clean Coal Technologies Market Potential.”

Coal remains the world’s fastest growing energy source, fueling 40% of electricity worldwide. But while fueling industry and powering homes in the U.S. and abroad, coal also releases serious pollutants and greenhouse gases.

According to the report, “Clean Coal Technologies Market Potential,” the primary focus on reducing emissions from coal-fired electricity generation is to capture the emissions and store them underground, in a process known as sequestration. This important strategy can deliver major reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and works especially well with coal gasification, which delivers a pure stream of carbon dioxide that can be more readily captured and stored.

The strategy of sequestration holds more promise than simply improving the efficiency of the electricity generation plants, because a short-term reduction in emissions will have a counterbalancing impact of an increase in demand. Sequestration delivers large enough reductions in emissions so that the positive environmental impact will remain even with an increase in demand.

Energy Secretary Steven Chu recently encouraged coal producing regions to embrace carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology as a way to continue using coal, while dealing with global warming. “It will save coal,” said Chu, speaking at a forum at University of Charleston. Chu noted that CCS can be a major factor in climate change solutions. The Obama administration has already placed $4.3 billion into CCS as part of the Recovery Act, and plans to bring as many as ten commercial CCS demonstration projects online by 2016.

The report also noted that existing clean coal technologies developed over the past 20 years have already resulted in several low-cost, efficient and environmentally friendly technologies for electric utilities, steel mills, cement plants and other industries. Chu predicted that advancing technology will drive down the cost of carbon capture and storage, noting, “Technology improves continuously. Engineers and scientists do remarkable things and costs are driven down.”

The detailed report includes a detailed analysis of clean coal technologies, including both upcoming and present-day technologies such as gasification and combustion, as well as the economic aspects of clean coal technologies.

View full details of the report at http://EnergyBusinessReports.com/shop/Clean-Coal-Technolo...

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