Returning Carbon to Nature
Coal, Carbon Capture, and Storage
- 1st Edition - August 23, 2013
- Latest edition
- Author: Michael H. Stephenson
- Language: English
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
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 to address the impact that carbon emissions has on global warming continues, awareness and knowledge of viable solutions must be communicated in layperson terms. Returning Coal and Carbon To Nature breaks across traditional barriers among history, geology, biology and climate change to address the topic from a multidisciplinary, Earth System Science approach. If you’re a policymakeror someone who influences policy, this book will explain carbon capture and storage—a relatively new concept—in easy-to-understand terms. Clearly presented charts, tables and diagrams explain critical concepts, and a range of full-color photographs will help you visualize the carbon capture and storage process and its principles.
- Discusses carbon capture and storage in terms easily accessible to a range of stakeholders, including policymakers worldwide and geoscientists who influence policy.
- 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
"… describes the importance of coal for generating electricity, the need to reduce carbon emissions, and the processes for capturing, transporting, injecting, and storing carbon dioxide in geological formations… illustrates the significance of electricity in people's lives and in economic development by focusing on India, China, and South Africa,… Summing Up: Recommended."—CHOICE, July 1, 2014
"..breaks across traditional barriers among history, geology, biology and climate change to address the topic from a multidisciplinary, Earth System Science approach. If you’re a policymaker or someone who influences policy, this book will explain carbon capture and storage-a relatively new concept- in easy-to-understand terms."—GeoQ, March 2014
"Stephenson argues for carbon capture and storage (CCS) as an important tool in stabilizing the environment while reducing CO2 emissions.…Though the book makes use of some technical symbols and makes quantitative arguments using available data, the conceptual basis of climate change and CCS technology is explained in conversational prose that opens the book to nontechnical readers."—ProtoView.com, January 2014
"5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent review of an important topic 3 Jan 2014 By Dr. P. Styles Format:Paperback
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Michael H. Stephenson
Mike Stephenson is Director of Science and Technology at the British Geological Survey. He began his career as a schoolteacher in rural Africa and stayed there for nearly ten years but returned to Britain to pursue research in the Middle East and Asia, including highlights in Oman, Jordan, Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. Mike has degrees from Imperial College and Sheffield University and runs the Science Programme at BGS, the UK's national geoscience and data centre, with 520 scientists and technologists. He has professorships at Nottingham and Leicester universities and has published over eighty peer-reviewed papers, while also acting on the editorial boards of several journals, and as Editor-in-Chief of an Elsevier geological journal. In 2012 Mike published an acclaimed study of carbon capture and storage called Returning Carbon to Nature, published by Elsevier.
Affiliations and expertise
British Geological Survey, Keyworth,Nottingham, UKRead Returning Carbon to Nature on ScienceDirect