Posts Tagged ‘sequestration’
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is very important to the government’s current plan for dealing with climate change. This is clear from the $100M investment the government is making in the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute (GCCSI) and the recent treasury modeling, which forecast that Australia’s costs will be 25% higher in 2050 if CCS technology isn’t viable.
GCCSI is envisioned as a global institute supporting international research and facilitating projects hosted in Australia. The United Kingdom and Norway have publicly backed the plan. While some people see CCS as a silver bullet, being the only way we can make deep cuts in emissions using fossil fuels, for others it is a pipe dream with many challenges to overcome to overcome.
In any case it is a key part of the government’s strategy to deal with climate change and something we need to follow.
The Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC), is in many ways the forerunner of the GCCSI. CO2CRC is the epicenter of CCS research and application in Australia. They have recently published an interesting review of the CCS activity in Australia and publish a large number of other useful reports and fact sheets.
If you want to understand Carbon Capture and Storage, the CO2CRC is definitely the place to go.
