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Carbon Capture and Storage

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a way to capture carbon emissions from sources like factories and power plants and store it underground instead of releasing it into the atmosphere. CCS has the potential to help reduce hard to eliminate emissions but commercial projects have faced problems delivering on capturing large percentages of emissions. For CCS to work better governments need policies like carbon taxes and infrastructure support to help the technology mature and lower costs.

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Carbon Capture and Storage

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a way to capture carbon emissions from sources like factories and power plants and store it underground instead of releasing it into the atmosphere. CCS has the potential to help reduce hard to eliminate emissions but commercial projects have faced problems delivering on capturing large percentages of emissions. For CCS to work better governments need policies like carbon taxes and infrastructure support to help the technology mature and lower costs.

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Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact


assessment.

Carbon capture and storage


Introduction
• Carbon capture and storage is a way to grab a planet-heating gas and lock it underground.
• But we also need to push all the options to avoid CO2 in the first place.

Carbon capture and storage (CCS)


• Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a way to catch carbon and trap it beneath the earth.
• The captured CO2 is converted into other components and products, such as chemical feedstocks,
fuels or building materials
• In its latest review of scientific research, the IPCC found that CCS is needed for emissions that are
hard to wipe out.
• Scientists see a big role for CCS in factories that make cement and fertiliser.

Potential of CCS
• Captured carbon can be utilised in producing oil or can be used to produce fuels, construction
material, chemicals, plastics and algae-based products such as fertilisers and animal feed.
• The costs associated with carbon capture can be partially offset by the revenue generated from the
utilisation measures.
• Helps to phase CO2 from atmosphere.
• It helps in accelerating the transition to Circular Carbon Economy.

How well does CCS work?

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• Some bioethanol plants already report capturing more than 95% of the carbon emissions.
• But when it comes to capturing carbon from dirtier gas streams, CCS projects have underdelivered.
• Commercial projects have been plagued with problems.
• Some have been designed to capture only a fraction of the total emissions.
• After decades of pushing the technology, there are only 30 working CCS facilities, according to
industry data.

How can CCS work better?


• In Norway, a German industrial giant is building the first facility to capture carbon from cement and
store it underground.
• According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), new companies are focusing on specific parts of
the problem like transport and storage.
• There’s now a bigger focus on storing CO2 than using it to extract more oil.

Way Forward
• To make the technology grow cheaper and work better, governments need to
o tax carbon,
o make it easier to approve CCS projects and
o help set up the infrastructure around it.
• As the technology matures and the associated costs fall further, India should consider designing
policies and programs to encourage faster deployment.

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