Tri-Cities Tech Business Update
Carbon capture shows major potential in China
Carbon dioxide capture and storage technologies could represent a cost-effective, viable option to help China continue to meet its growing energy demands while also delivering deep and sustained reductions in industrial greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study released by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Much of the discussion around China's options for significantly limiting carbon dioxide emissions has been all or nothing-that the country either continue increasing its domestic use of coal with parallel increases in greenhouse gas emissions or that it stop using coal completely and endure the economic consequences. The new study shows there is a much-needed third option for addressing these twin challenges-large-scale deployment of carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and storage technologies. The study identifies enormous and widely distributed deep geologic CO2 storage formations in China that could allow for cost-effective, large-scale deployment of capture and storage technologies for at least 100 years. Read the complete news release. View a summary of the report's findings. Contact Staci West at 509-372-6313.
