Carbon-negative power generation for China

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https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2019/04/carbon-negative-power-generation-for-china

Carbon-negative power generation for China

Reducing CO2 concentrations and air pollution in the atmosphere
By Leah Burrows | April 8, 2019

If we’re going to limit global temperature increases to 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels, as laid out in the Paris Climate Agreement, it’s going to take a lot more than a transition to carbon-neutral energy sources such as wind and solar. It’s going to require carbon-negative technologies, including energy sources that actually reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.

While most climate researchers and activists agree that carbon-negative solutions will be needed to meet the terms of the Paris Agreement goal, so far most of these solutions have been viewed as impractical in the near term, especially for large, coal-reliant countries like China.

Now, researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy and Environment, in collaboration with colleagues from Tsinghua University in Beijing and other institutions in China, Australia and the U.S., have analyzed technical and economic viability for China to move towards carbon-negative electric power generation.

The research is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1812239116


It turns out the solution is to burn “biomass” with coal (oh, and capture all of the carbon…)

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1. at least they are trying

China is planning and we still have dorks who "are not convinced."

Saw Tim Ryan on Hardball - he gets it.