McKinsey’s Guide to Carbon Capture and Storage
Have you been looking for a quick cheat sheet to understand the mechanics behind carbon capture and storage (CCS), which is one of the technologies envisioned by President Obama to allow the United States to use coal as a clean energy source? Well, global consulting company McKinsey recently published a guide to the technologies behind CCS in this nifty interactive graphic display (note that you need to sign up for a free account with the McKinsey Quarterly to view it).
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The interactive demonstrates fairly clearly the methodology behind the 3 stages of carbon capture and storage:
- Capture: which includes either pre-combustion, post-combustion, or oxyfuel
- Transport: which includes either pipeline, shipping, or road/rail
- Storage: which can be accomplished either underground, or in the deep ocean
The guide is designed for people with limited time on their hands, so it’s pretty easy to understand and navigate.
Image: GD*5684718 via Flickr’s Creative Commons
Awesome picture in the post! Any way to see a full-res version?
Pero … pregunto, acaso no es que son torres de refrigeracion de las centrales nucleares?. Entonces, eso es vapor de agua solamante?, No es jugar un poco con nosotros?.
CCS is crazy — they want to pump it underground where it will leak out, or even worse, dump it in the ocean?
The answer is to stop using coal. We don’t need to use it, we are very quickly developing solar and wind energy and we can even use nuclear until we get solar and wind up to speed. Coal is not a feasible fuel for the future.
The only reason we might have to use CCS is to get existing C02 out of the atomosphere, not to put more C02 in the atmosphere and then use it to get it out.
See NASA scientist James Hansen’s recent article on this.
http://www.civilianism.com/futurism/?p=527
The photo looks like a nuky plant to me with the parabolic cooling towers.
Does that have something to do with CCS?