November 12th Class Notes: Presentations Continued

Oxy Fuels

-burns oxygen with gaseous fuel

-one plant in Europe

potential problems: release of methane, which is worse than carbon dioxide

-takes a lot of energy, might not be worth it or seen as efficient

-having this one plant in Europe may cause people to investigate this process further and possibly make the process more efficient

Justice says EPA has Power

-Clean Air Act, 1960s

-major steps in the sense that politics is becoming more concerned with environmental policies

Clean Coal Plant canceled-Hydrogen Economy, Too

-FutureGen

-(refer to our article on China and coal. This is the failed American version)

-still not economically feasible

-argued that its not feasible by Jeff Goodell, in "Big Coal: The dirty secret behind America's energy future". 

-plant fell through because of major costs

-possibly trying to use this process on a much smaller scale

-some argue that it needs to be done even though it may not be successful/efficient...argue that we need to start somewhere and that no process is typically successful in its first run. You never really know until you try-kind of mindset

-lack of government funding