Tuesday
Mar112008
by 
Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill Coal
Mar 11, 2008 Climate: WG3 Energy Greens Thought for the day:
Greens are calling for a moratorium on new coal fired power stations. Would they have still been making these demands if we still had a mining industry?
Reader Comments (2)
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanId=sa013&articleId=4D9BFC3D-E7F2-99DF-3E6E1A60C23D44E6
March 14, 2007 Future of 'Clean Coal' Power Tied to (Uncertain) Success of Carbon Capture and Storage
...........one 500-megawatt coal-fired power plant ...... produces three million tons of CO2 annually. Adding carbon capture technology to that plant sucks up 40 percent of the power it can produce and adds at least 2.7 cents to the retail price of that electricity..............
and concludes
.........This will require building a liquid CO2 infrastructure comparable to the national highway system ..... "How hard and how far can we push capacity in a safe, virtually riskless way?" Moniz asks. "There remains a scientific consensus on viability. Implementation is a different issue."
consensus? now where have i heard that before?
seems like a potty idea to me - it pushes the price of electicity up 50% in real terms , needs vast capex, there will likely be some serious technological problems en route and is probably completely unneccesary!
March 20, 2008 MAKING DIRTY POWER GREEN Is Carbon Capture a False Hope for Coal Power?
..............A new study by the TAB likewise comes to the conclusion that the cost of producing electricity using the new technology will nearly double -- instead of costing three to four cents per kilowatt hour, the price tag would rise to between five and seven cents.........................
are these people trying to bring about a recession in the eu! this sort of pottiness (carbon capture) will just drive industry off shore - will hte eu become a nation of hair dressers ruled by a load of incompetent bureaucrats who are unaccountable to anyone?