Captura de Carbono

Na próxima semana entra em funcionamento a primeira central de energia a carvão com captura e armazenamento de CO2, ainda que em fase piloto. A notícia completa no Guardian:


"World's first carbon capture pilot fires up clean-coal advocates
German project will burn coal in an atmosphere of pure oxygen – producing CO2 waste which can be buried – creating enough electricity to power 1,000 homes


The world's first complete demonstration of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology will begin next week at a coal-fired power station in Germany.

Built alongside the 1,600MW Schwarze Pumpe power plant in north Germany, the demonstration experiment will capture up to 100,000 tonnes of CO2 a year, compress it and bury it 3,000m below the surface of the depleted Altmark gas field, about 200km from the site.(...)"