Stories tagged with "carbon capture"

Carbon capture and storage

Posted by Euan Mearns on March 11, 2009 - 11:03am in The Oil Drum: Europe
Topic: Policy/Politics
Tags: carbon capture, carbon dioxide, ccs, chp, co2 eor, eor, original [list all tags]


An alternative to CCS is to burn less coal. Combined heat and power (CHP) generation involves capturing the waste heat from power stations and pumping this hot water to neighbouring houses in district heating systems. Danish CHP plant is over 90% energy efficient

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The post-oil energy economies of the future - by Gordon Brown

Posted by Euan Mearns on July 15, 2008 - 9:45am in The Oil Drum: Europe
Topic: Policy/Politics
Tags: carbon capture, concentrating solar power, eib, electric vehicles, gordon brown, hybrids, nuclear power, original, phev, post-oil, severn barrage [list all tags]



British Prime Minister Gordon Brown - from zero to hero?

.... to set ourselves on a new energy path - a path from our economies that are today over-dependent on oil towards the post-oil energy economies of the future. And moving towards this sustainable energy economy helps us meet our economic, political and environmental goals.

The stuff of Statesmanship? From a speech made by Gordon Brown on 13th July at The Union for the Mediterranean Summit. The whole speech is below the fold. My emphasis added.
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