US aims for carbon capture in a decade

Businesses and governments need to invest at least US$2.4-trillion between now and 2050 to capture carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants and factories and pump them underground, the International Energy Agency said.

Dreams of braking global warming by storing carbon emissions from power plants could be undermined by the risk of leakage, according to a study published on Sunday.Rich countries have earmarked tens of billions of dollars of investment in carbon capture and storage (CCS), a technology that is still only at an experimental stage.Under CCS, carbon dioxide (CO2) would be snared at source from plants that are big burners of oil, gas and coal.

Skyonic aims to capture carbon dioxide and turn it into chemicals like chlorine and hydrogen.

Finding an economical way to capture carbon dioxide from existing coal burning power plants is key to getting China to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions as well as for U.S. efforts to combat global warming, says a study being released Friday.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Finding an economical way to capture carbon dioxide from existing coal burning power plants is key to getting China to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions as well as for U.S. efforts to combat global warming, says a study being released Friday....

A task force to President Barack Obama called Thursday for a strong government role to promote clean coal, potentially accepting liability over carbon storage sites for thousands of years to come.Obama had asked the panel to recommend how to promote carbon capture and storage, or CCS, a largely undeveloped technology that aims to prevent carbon emissions blamed for global warming from entering the atmosphere.

South Africa is trying to "green" the World Cup, but local efforts are struggling to balance out the enormous carbon emissions caused by holding the tournament at the tip of the continent.Natural ventilation, rain water capture, energy efficiency: the new stadiums built for Africa's first World Cup incorporate top-notch environmental standards.The cities of Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban have also planted thousands of trees to capture the carbon dioxide blamed for global warming.

AP - WHAT: American Electric Power said in its Friday earnings release that a 57 percent drop in its second-quarter numbers was partly due to a charge related to a carbon capture project at its Mountaineer Plant in W.Va., serving that state and Virginia through AEP's Appalachian Power unit.