Returning carbon to nature : coal, carbon capture, and storage / Michael Stephenson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stephenson, Michael.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carbon sequestration.

Carbon dioxide mitigation.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 143 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps

Place of Publication:

Waltham, Mass. : Elsevier, 2013.

Waltham, MA : Elsevier, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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,

Contents:

Front Cover; Returning Carbon to Nature: Coal, Carbon Capture, and Storage; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Of Hockey Sticks and Coal; Coal and the Industrial Revolution; Where Is the Coal?; Use of Coal in the Future; Coal in India; Coal in China; Coal in South Africa; Solving the Problem of Coal Use; Bibliography; 2 The Negative Greenhouse; The Plants; How Coal Forms; Peat; Subsidence; Coalification; The Negative Greenhouse; Capturing Carbon Fast Enough; Bibliography; 3 Capturing Carbon Dioxide; Artificial CO2 Capture

How Do Power Stations Generate Electricity?Transporting CO2; The Humber CCS Cluster; Bibliography; 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; India; China; South Africa; Full Circle: Storing CO2 in Coal; Is There Enough Storage Space, Then?; Bibliography; 5 Will It Leak?; How Likely Is Leakage; Impacts; Detecting Leaks; The Big Leak; Regulation; Bibliography; 6 Accounting for Carbon; How Do You Make CCS Pay for Itself?; Isn't CCS Artificial?

Back to the Carbon CycleFull Circle; Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Other Format:

Print version: Stephenson, Michael H. Returning Carbon to Nature

ISBN:

9780124076563

0124076564

OCLC:

856626714