emissions produced from the use of fossil fuels in industrial processes and electricity generation, effectively preventing that COThe IPCC is not alone in its support for increasing use of this promising technology. In a
titled “20 Years of Carbon Capture and Storage,” the International Energy Agency suggests that wide-scale use of carbon capture would result in a 19 percent reduction in global COemissions by 2050. However, this projection assumes the creation of approximately 3,400 carbon capture plants before that date.
, the latter either underground in depleted oil and gas fields or in deep saline aquifer formations. The first leg of this journey entails separating COcan then be transported to safe storage via pipeline, road tanker or ship. The Petra Nova Project is the world’s largest carbon capture project at a coal power plant and is located just outside of Houston. The plant can capture about 1.