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Low emissions coal technology

Storage technology still not proven and DOE 2003 estimates for 2015-2016 commissioning of plants remain unchanged – Australian FutureGen Clean Coal Test Project uses refrigeration of CO2 Flue Gas Exhaust Streams for transportation a few hundred kilometres from host plant for underground injection – exhaust gas “oxy-fuels branded” derivation of the early DOE Plan to Demonstrate Multiple FutureGen Clean Coal Projects with Cutting-Edge Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technology.

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CCUP’s diversification is based on the core business’s CO2 Reduction capability that can be best described as “Carbon Conversion” technologies. In addition to reducing CO2 Emissions, these technologies can also produce clean fuels suitable for improving air quality in urban areas.

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Carbon conversion enables the development of Feedstock-Flexible Energy-Plexes which produce “near-zero emissions electric power”, clean fuels, and chemicals, or combinations of these products.

CCUP’s carbon conversion technologies are the key enabling technologies for Energy-Plexes which are able to process numerous feedstocks like coal, biomass, natural gas, oil or waste materials with the production of near-zero CO2 emissions.

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Clean energy products capable of being produced include synthetic gas [from which steam for the generation of near-zero CO2 emissions electric power is generated], CO2, hydrogen, methanol, diesel and gasoline.

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Fact Sheet: Source: http://fossil.energy.gov/programs/powersystems/futuregen/futuregen_revised_0108 .pdf

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admin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:33:42 +0000

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Export of CO2 Emissions to China from UK

admin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:21:15 +0000

China’s growth is no figleaf for the real source of CO2 emissions: the UK

A worker rides past coal-fueled cooling towers at a power plant in Guangan Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP

Whenever a government or a corporation doesn’t want to do something, it blames China. You want fair terms of trade? Sorry, not when China’s dumping its goods on the world market. You want a 40-hour week? Forget it, the Chinese are working a 40-hour day.

Source: Guardian UK http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot

USA To Regulate Power Station CO2 Emissions

admin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:27:38 +0000

EPA will regulate greenhouse gases,
says US climate chief

Regulator will rule that carbon dioxide is a danger to public health under Clean Air Act

24 Feb 2009

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will regulate carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power stations, Barack Obama’s climate chief said this week.

Carol Browner, special adviser to the president on climate change, said in an interview on Sunday at the Western Governors’ Association meeting in Washington that the EPA is looking at a ruling from a Supreme Court in 2007 that requires the agency to decide whether CO2 emissions are a danger to public health and ” will make an endangerment finding”. [ Refer to our 17th February Entry http://www.climatecleanup.net/blog/epa-urged-to-act-on-climate-change ]

The decision will overrule a memo issued in the final days of the Bush administration that said that carbon dioxide emissions need not be considered when approving applications for new power plants.

The move would mean coal-fired power plants would be unlikely to receive the go-ahead without developing Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology [ or use our Black Box CO2 Emission Reduction Technology refer http://www.climatecleanup.net/blog/black-box ] . It could also open up heavy polluters to legal action by those who say they are affected by CO2 emissions.

When the review of the Supreme Court decision was announced last week, a permit application for a new coal-fired plant in Oklahoma was withdrawn within hours.

Many in the industry have argued that such a stringent change to policy should come through rules passed by Congress, rather than a decision by the regulator.

Browner also announced that the Obama administration is seeking to establish national rules for regulating emissions from cars.

“The hope across the administration is that we can have a unified national policy when it comes to cleaner vehicles,” Browner said.

But the Washington Post reports that rather than bypassing Congress on this policy, it is more likely that the Obama administration will seek to regulate it through a Congress-agreed cap-and-trade scheme, which would generate much-needed revenues for the federal government.

“The administration is engaged with Congress to pass cap-and-trade legislation, which the president believes is far superior to a regulatory approach using the existing Clean Air Act,” an official told the Washington Post.

“If [the EPA] finds that greenhouse gases endanger health or welfare, the next steps would be taken thoughtfully and with input from all stakeholders.”

The state of California is waiting to hear from the federal government whether or not it can regulate its own car emissions.

Source: http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2237090/epa-regulate-greenhouse-gases

Road transport has biggest long-term impact on global warming says EU

admin — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:47:24 +0000

European Commission, Environment DG

Road transport has biggest long-term impact on global warming, says EU

European Commission, Environment DG
Published Feb. 13, 2009

Emissions from transport affect the climate both in the short and long term. New research explored the size and mix of emissions with short and long-lived effects and found that road transport has the largest effect on global mean temperature. The study conducted under the EU-funded QUANTIFY project compared the effects of current emissions from road, air, rail and shipping. The study explored the effects of emissions from a single year over different time periods and found that emissions from road transport have the most impact in the long term (20-100 years).CO2 is the only GHG that remains in the atmosphere for centuries. It has an influence on warming over relatively long time scales compared to other greenhouse gases (GHGs), such as ozone. The researchers calculated that high levels of CO2 emitted as a result of fuel consumption means that road transport has the largest contribution to global temperature increases when 20 to 100 year timescales are considered. In contrast, aviation has a large impact over a 10 year timescale because most of its effects result from short-lived gases, such as ozone, and induced cirrus clouds. Shipping illustrates this variation in the effects of emissions; SO2 and NOx emissions from shipping cause an cooling effect during the first 40 years, but on longer timescales CO2 emissions from shipping cause a net warming effect. It should be noted that SO2 and NOx have other negative environmental impacts, such as causing acid rain.

The findings have important implications for policy as they demonstrate that the effectiveness of a GHG reduction strategy depends on its timescale. As an example, the authors give the EU’s target of limiting global warming to within 2°C above preindustrial levels. If this limit is to be reached within the next four decades, then a 40-year timescale is relevant. Over this timescale, the researchers calculate that the warming effect of aviation is 15 per cent of that caused by road transport. For shipping this figure is 4 per cent and for rail, just 2 per cent.

The research suggests that policies seeking to reduce the impact of current emissions in the longer term should focus on reducing emissions from road transport. However, if emissions need to be reduced in the short term, then policies should target aviation.

The study is based on estimates of global mean temperature and offers a simple tool that could help policymakers to assess the effects of future emissions scenarios on global temperatures. Previous studies have used an approach called ‘radiative forcing’ (the difference between incoming and outgoing radiation), which the researchers suggest may be less easily applied in the context of making policy.

Source and Article download: European Commission, Environment DG

EPA Urged To Act On Climate Change

admin — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:39:06 +0000

EPA

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18 States Urge EPA to Act on Global Warming

February 17, 2009

On Feb. 5, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley lead an 18-state coalition, the Corporation Counsel for the City of New York, and the City Solicitor of Baltimore, urging U.S. Environmental Protection Administrator Lisa Jackson to act in response to the 2007 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA.

“On April 2, 2007, the Supreme Court established the EPA’s responsibility to regulate greenhouse gases under the federal Clean Air Act. With the change in administrations, we are extremely hopeful that the EPA will finally start to do its job under the statute,” Coakley said. “The second anniversary of the Court’s ruling is now on the horizon, and we are today urging Administrator Jackson to issue as quickly as possible a determination that greenhouse gases are endangering public health and welfare.”

In Massachusetts v. EPA, the Supreme Court ruled that — contrary to the agency’s claim — EPA has the authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. The court also held that the agency could not refuse to use that authority based on the agency’s policy preferences. Instead, the EPA would have to decide, based on the science, whether it believed that greenhouse gas emissions were posing dangers to public health or welfare. If the agency determined that endangerment was occurring, the agency would have to start the process of setting emission standards for greenhouse gases. In late 2007, EPA officials sent a proposed endangerment determination to the White House as an e-mail attachment, but White House officials refused to open the document, and former EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson refused repeated requests to make the document public.

The following states signed on to the letter: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. All of these states, together with the city of New York, and the Mayor and City Council for Baltimore, joined a petition last year seeking to compel EPA to act under the Supreme Court’s ruling.

A copy of the letter can be found at http://www.mass.gov/Cago/docs/press/2009_02_05_mass_epa_letter_attachment1.pdf

Source: http://www.eponline.com/articles/70781

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Low emissions coal technology: news, views & facts – New Gen Coal

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Low emissions coal technology

Low emissions coal technology

World Expert on the CO2 Emissions Market

Export of CO2 Emissions to China from UK

China’s growth is no figleaf for the real source of CO2 emissions: the UK

USA To Regulate Power Station CO2 Emissions

EPA will regulate greenhouse gases, says US climate chief

Regulator will rule that carbon dioxide is a danger to public health under Clean Air Act

Road transport has biggest long-term impact on global warming says EU

EPA Urged To Act On Climate Change

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18 States Urge EPA to Act on Global Warming

EPA will regulate greenhouse gases,
says US climate chief