While scientists and environmentalists, on one hand, are concerned with the increasing threats, the coal-powered energy sources are causing to climate change, on the other, another group is working on a new technology that can eventually make these future sources safe.
A team of MIT researchers have designed carbon sequestration technologies that can enable future energy sources powered by coal to help decrease climate change threat. A new facility that will be using a new chilled ammonia-based technique for capturing carbon dioxide from energy generation and then inject it 9,000 feet below the surface, was announced by the Ohio-based utility American Electric Power.
The process of carbon capturing and sequestration is a critical enabling technology that can help reduce carbon dioxide emissions significantly, allowing the fuel-source to meet the world’s pressing energy needs as well. This is found under the study, “The Future of Coal: Options for a Carbon Constrained World.”
