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* Best Way To Capture Carbon Emissions? Don’t Create Them In The First Place [https://cleantechnica.com/2018/09/10/best-way-to-capture-carbon-emissions-dont-create-them-in-the-first-place/ Clean Technica 25k] | * Best Way To Capture Carbon Emissions? Don’t Create Them In The First Place [https://cleantechnica.com/2018/09/10/best-way-to-capture-carbon-emissions-dont-create-them-in-the-first-place/ Clean Technica 25k] | ||
* Cover the U.S. in 89 Percent Trees—Or Go Solar [http://www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com/cover-the-u-s-in-89-percent-trees-or-go-solar/ Science and Technology Research News] | * Cover the U.S. in 89 Percent Trees—Or Go Solar [http://www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com/cover-the-u-s-in-89-percent-trees-or-go-solar/ Science and Technology Research News] | ||
* To make coal as carbon neutral as solar requires vast swaths of land [http://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2018/09/got-land-its-what-well-need-to-make-coal-as-carbon-neutral-as-solar/ Anthropocene Magazine] | |||
* Study: Forest prkotection also needed to combat climate change [https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/breaking/cover-the-u-s-in-trees-to-pull-carbon-from/article_2793bc24-29a5-5f0a-b764-6bf3e6adc346.html Press of Atlantic City 69k]* Cubrir los EE.UU. en un 89% de árboles o usar energía solar [https://ecoinventos.com/cubrir-los-ee-uu-en-un-89-de-arboles-o-usar-energia-solar/ EcoInventos 58.8k] | |||
* Estados Unidos plantea compensar gases de efecto invernadero [https://laverdadnoticias.com/ecologia/Estados-Unidos-plantea-compensar-gases-de-efecto-invernadero-20180925-0120.html La Verdad 29.2k] Venezuelan regional newspaper. | |||
* Study: Forest protection also needed to combat climate change [https://njenvironmentnews.com/2018/09/26/study-forest-protection-also-needed-to-combat-climate-change/ NJ Environmental News] | |||
* Can Bio-Sequestration Offset Coal Plant Emissions [http://vaeng.com/news/how-much-land-needed-to-offset-coal-plant-emissions The Virginia Engineer] | |||
* Study: Vast forests needed to offset effects of burning coal for electricity [https://www.missoulacurrent.com/outdoors/2018/12/forests-coal-electricity/ Missoula Current] | |||
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Source
- Groesbeck, J.G., Pearce, J.M., 2018. Coal with Carbon Capture and Sequestration is not as Land Use Efficient as Solar Photovoltaic Technology for Climate Neutral Electricity Production. Scientific Reports 8, 13476. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-31505-3 open access
Abstract
Avoiding climate destabilization caused by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, requires climate-neutral electricity sources. It has been proposed that the GHG emissions from coal-fired power plants can be offset by carbon capture and sequestration or bio-sequestration. However, solar photovoltaic (PV) technology has recently declined so far in costs it now offers both technical and economic potential to offset all of coal-fired electricity use. PV only emits GHGs during fabrication and not during use. To determine which technical solution to climate-neutral electricity generation should be preferred, this study aggregates and synthesizes life cycle analysis studies for exergy, GHG emissions and land transformation for climate-neutral electricity. The results show that because of lower exergy efficiencies coal plants emit 13–18 times more GHG and transform 5–13 times more land than PV. Optimal bio-sequestration of coal-fired GHG requires 62% of U.S. arable land or 89% of all U.S land with average forest cover. Carbon capture and storage and enhanced oil recovery can improve coal performance, but for all cases the results clearly show that PV is a far more effective use of land. Overall, for the first time this study found climate-neutral photovoltaic farms are a preferred solution to climate-neutral coal fired electricity generation.
Results
Keywords
Photovoltaic; Solar farm; Land use; Coal; Carbon capture and storage: EOR; CCS
See also Papers about coal
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- Decarbonizing the boardroom? Aligning electric utility executive compensation with climate change incentives
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