Huizi said to Zhuangzi “Your words are useless!”
Zhuangzi said, “You have to understand the useless before you can talk about the useful. The earth is certainly vast and broad, though you use only the area under your feet. If, however, you dug away all [...]
Archive for May, 2007
The Use of Uselessness 無用之用: Sequestration Feng Shui
Posted in random bits on 25 May 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Norwegian Storage
Posted in carbon capture & storage on 24 May 2007 | 1 Comment »
Statoil’s Sleipner carbon capture and storage (CCS) project was the first commercial venture of its kind. In 1996, Statoil began sequestering CO2 captured from natural gas processing in the Utsira saline aquifer 1 km deep in the subsurface of the North Sea off the coast of Norway. About 1 million tonnes of CO2 are sequestered [...]
The Future of CCS: Still a Turbid Sky
Posted in carbon capture & storage, global warming, law on 16 May 2007 | 1 Comment »
Several reports of great stature predict the future development of carbon capture and storage (CCS). The IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2005), the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change (2006) by the British government, and MIT’s The Future of Coal: Options for a Carbon Constrained World (2007) all state [...]
Delaware’s Hybrid Energy Proposal
Posted in carbon capture & storage, law, random bits on 14 May 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On 8 May 2007, the Delaware Public Service Commission (PSC) voted unanimously to adopt its staff recommendation of a wind/natural gas hybrid electricity generation plant. The PSC decision directs Delmarva to open negotiations with Bluewater Wind to build an offshore wind farm in the 200-300 MW range, and with Conectiv Energy to build a 150-200 [...]
IPCC Working Group 3: “Climate Change 2007: Mitigation of Climate Change”
Posted in carbon capture & storage, global warming, random bits on 9 May 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The last of a trio of summary reports by the IPCC is out. There will be more to discuss in a later blog entry, but for now I want to focus on carbon capture & storage (CCS). The report states that “there is substantial economic potential for the mitigation of global GHG emissions over the [...]
