Another clean coal plan fails
Posted by Big Gav in clean coal
The Australian reports that yet another clean coal plan has been shelved, as they realise that guaranteeing the CO2 will remain underground is too difficult - Chimneys sweep BP clean coal plan away
WHAT was touted as Australia's biggest contribution to developing clean coal technology for use around the world in reducing greenhouse gas emissions has been scrapped even before it got to first base. BP confirmed yesterday the $2 billion "hydrogen energy" coal-to-gas plant at Kwinana, south of Perth, would not proceed. ...
The proposed onshore site was close to BP Kwinana oil refinery and Rio's HISmelt direct iron ore smelting plant. But after more than two years of investigations and several million dollars of research, BP has now admitted that the geological formations off Perth contain gas "chimneys" that mean it is next to impossible to establish a seal in the strata that could contain the CO2.
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