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Returning Carbon to Nature
Coal, Carbon Capture, and Storage
- 1st Edition - August 14, 2013
- Author: Michael H. Stephenson
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 0 7 6 7 1 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 0 7 6 5 6 - 3
Carbon capture and storage is one of the main carbon emissions policy issues globally, yet you may know little about it if you’re outside the academic community. As the global push… Read more
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- The first cross-disciplinary look at the history, geology and biology of coal, and presents carbon capture and storage in the context of Earth System Science.
- Authored by one of the world’s foremost carbon capture and storage experts who has more than 30 years of field research experience.
geoscientists and government policymakers
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Of Hockey Sticks and Coal
Coal and the Industrial Revolution
Where is the Coal?
Use of Coal in the Future
Bibliography
Chapter 2. The Negative Greenhouse
The Plants
How Coal Forms
The Negative Greenhouse
Capturing Carbon Fast Enough
Bibliography
Chapter 3. Capturing Carbon Dioxide
Artificial CO2 Capture
Transporting CO2
Bibliography
Chapter 4. Returning Carbon to Nature
Creating an Underground CO2 Store
Ready-Made Storage
Bigger Storage
Long-Term Behaviour of CO2
Storage Space
CO2 Storage in India, China and South Africa
Full Circle: Storing CO2 in Coal
Is There Enough Storage Space, Then?
Bibliography
Chapter 5. Will It Leak?
How Likely is Leakage
Impacts
Detecting Leaks
The Big Leak
Regulation
Bibliography
Chapter 6. Accounting for Carbon
How Do You Make CCS Pay for Itself?
Isn’t CCS Artificial?
Back to the Carbon Cycle
Full Circle
Bibliography
- No. of pages: 150
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 14, 2013
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780124076716
- eBook ISBN: 9780124076563
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