By cutting up to 90% of carbon emissions from fossil fuel power stations, carbon capture and storage (CCS) could provide the vital key to maintaining a mix of energy sources while also meeting CO2 reduction targets.
The coal-fired Longannet power station in Fife has been in the vanguard of development but would require more than £1billion in Government funding to become the world’s first carbon capture demonstrator project by 2014. Any hope of that happening was dashed yesterday when the Coalition Government confirmed The Herald’s exclusive story that it was abandoning the project due to specific problems with the length of pipeline required between the plant and reservoirs for storing carbon.
Carbon capture and the green goal
By cutting up to 90% of carbon emissions from fossil fuel power stations, carbon capture and storage (CCS) could provide the vital key to maintaining a mix of energy sources while also meeting CO2 reduction targets.
The coal-fired Longannet power station in Fife has been in the vanguard of development but would require more than £1billion in Government funding to become the world’s first carbon capture demonstrator project by 2014. Any hope of that happening was dashed yesterday when the Coalition Government confirmed The Herald’s exclusive story that it was abandoning the project due to specific problems with the length of pipeline required between the plant and reservoirs for storing carbon.
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