Carbon capture and

Carbon capture and storage technology is the most promising technology to significantly decrease C02 emissions. Nevertheless, it may be possible to use C02 as a raw material for other industrial uses. In this chapter, authors explain both ways to decrease C02 emissions. 

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Goel Carbon capture and storage technology for sustainable energy. 2009 Jawahar-lal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. 

Nelson, T.O., P.D. Box, D.A. Green, and R.P. Gupta, Carbon Dioxide Recovery from Power Plant Flue Gas using Supported Carbonate Sorbents in a Thermal Swing Process, Sixth Annual Conference on Carbon Capture and Sequestration, Pittsburgh, PA, May 2007. 

Shevalier, M., Nightingale, M., Johnson, G., Mayer, B., Hutcheon, I., Perkins, E. 2008. Geochemical monitoring of the Penn West CO2-EOR Pilot, Drayton Valley, Alberta. 7th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture and Sequestration, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

President Bush has promoted carbon capture and burial as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Energy Department s goal for power plants would have them capture 90% of their carbon emissions by 2012. 

In order for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles to reduce global warming gases, the electrolysis process will need to become more efficient, and the electric power will need to be produced from a higher percentage of low-to zero-carbon sources (renewables or coal with carbon capture and storage). 

These plants would need to use carbon capture equipment or their estimated carbon emissions could equal the fossil fuel emissions from the past 250 years. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is an important research area but widespread commercial use may be years away. 

When investigating the entire regulatory framework of carbon capture and storage, it becomes quickly evident that the extent of legislation and regulation decreases drastically along the chain from capture to transport to storage. 

When judging the public impact of carbon-capture and storage activities, it should be taken in mind, that apparently only very few people are aware of the extraordinary challenge imposed by the need to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 60% to 80% within the next five decades. This finding of Shackley et al. (2004) clearly reveals the need for a bottom-up information policy to prepare the grounds for any new mitigation option. 

When investigating the processes and policies that could raise the potential acceptance of carbon capture and storage, Shackley et al. (2004) found that more certainty about risks would be helpful. The main concerns about risks connected with carbon capture and storage were possible leakage, ecosystems and environmental impacts, the untested nature of the technology and human health impacts. 

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