The IPCC is meeting this week in Japan to approve another report about the risks of climate change, from food and water shortages to a slowdown in economic growth. Most carbon capture and storage focuses on fossil fuels. Saskatchewan Powers Boundary Dam coal-fired power plant in Canada, due to start this year as the first commercial project of its type, will capture a million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year. Apart from the high costs of BECCS, the area you need is vast, said Joris Koornneef, an expert at sustainable energy consultancy Ecofys in the Netherlands. He estimated that it would require 350 million hectares - bigger than India - to be producing biomass for BECCS to make enough to suck 10 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the air, which would risk taking land from food crops. Erwin Jackson, deputy head of The Climate Institute, an independent research group in Australia, said governments and companies should do more to research BECCS technologies. At the moment were ignoring them and thats risky, he said. The IPCC says it is at least 95 per cent probable that climate change is mainly man-made, rather than caused by natural swings, but opinion polls show voters in many nations are unconvinced. jimboombatimes.au/story/2179226/climate-change-ipcc-eyes-new-bio-energy-fix/?cs=12
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 23:11:01 +0000
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