Canada's New Mobile Carbon Capture Unit - Reducing Emissions or Preserving Industry?

[Nathanael]

Thoughts on carbon capture and storage? Seems about right that Canada's Conservative government announces the development of this technology. How about the government setting some federal emissions standards, or passing an energy bill and showing a larger commitment to clean energy?!?




Canada's Ministry of Natural Resources has unveiled the CanCO2, its new, mobile, carbon capture facility created by CanmetENERGY.

A trailer-mounted, modular unit, the CanCO2 is designed to be transportable to various sites for field testing and pilot-scale demonstrations. All a part of Canada's less-than-exemplary plan of reducing carbon emissions 17% by 2020.

Link: http://www.energyboom.com/emerging/canadas-new-mobile-carbon-capture-unit-reducing-emissions-or-preserving-industry

[OKIsItJustMe]

1. It doesn't surprise me much

http://www.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca/media/newcom/2010/201020a-eng.php?PHPSESSID=b640a6990d72bea2d51718778fb1306c

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The Zero Emissions Technologies Group of CanmetENERGY’s Ottawa laboratory developed the CO₂ Research Facility through a public–private partnership from Natural Resources Canada’s Program for Energy Research and Development (PERD), Technology and Innovation (T&I), the Government of Canada’s ecoETI and CanmetENERGY’s CO₂ R&D Consortium. Current members include the Alberta Energy Research Institute (AERI), Babcock & Wilcox (B&W), Ontario Power Generation, SaskPower, USDOE-NETL, and CO₂ Capture Project (CCP) (a consortium consisting of Eni Group, StatoilHydro, Shell, BP, Suncor, Chevron Petrobras, and ConocoPhillips).

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It's a demo-sized unit, similar to ones developed by a few firms in the US. The primary difference seems to be its portability.