Technology Review: Blogs: Guest Blog: Dispelling Carbon Capture’s Scaling Myth
Technology Review: Blogs: Guest Blog: Dispelling Carbon Capture’s Scaling Myth
Dispelling Carbon Capture’s Scaling Myth
Pipelines needed to deploy CCS technology pose little impediment, according to an overlooked national lab study.
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
By Peter Fairley
PNNL estimates that CO2 pipeline build (red or blue) will look slim compared with natural-gas pipeline growth (yellow). [Larger image]
Credit: PNNL
Critics of carbon capture and storage (CCS) often deride the scale of infrastructure required for CCS to make a meaningful dent in global carbon emissions–not just in equipment to capture emissions at power plants (and other “point” sources of CO2), but also in pipelines to move the captured CO2 to storage sites. But an overlooked recent study by t