Module 4 explores the controversial topic of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) or with carbon capture and reuse (BECCU).
4. Bioenergy with carbon capture & storage (BECCS)
4.1: What is BECCS?
4.2: Why do we need BECCS?
4.3: Methods: How do we do BECCS?
4.4: Deploying BECCS
4.5: Cost of BECCS
4.1: What is BECCS?
4.2: Why do we need BECCS?
4.3: Methods: How do we do BECCS?
4.4: Deploying BECCS
4.5: Cost of BECCS
Links and other items of interest:
> Europe is burning U.S. wood as climate-friendly fuel but green groups protest (Charles, NPR, 4 Dec 2019)
> Massachusetts bill would block logging, late state forests keep their carbon (Petersen, Ars Technica, 26 Nov 2019)
> Sucking carbon out of the air is no magic fix for the climate emergency (Lewis, The Guardian, 1 Aug 2019)
> Drax's great biomass carbon capture experiment (Vella, Power-Technology.com, 20 May 2019)
> VIDEO: Step change technology for CO2 capture (C-Capture)
> Techo-economic assessment of bio-energy with carbon capture and storage systems in a typical sugarcane mill in Brazil (Restrepo-Valencia
and Walter, Energies, 20 Mar 2019)
> Carbon capture on power stations burning wood chips is not the game changer many think it is (Occone, The Conversation, 14 Feb 2019)
> Suck it up: the ultimate guide to negative-emission techologies (Rathi, The Quartz, 8 Oct 2018)
> Evaluating the use of biomass energy with carbon capture and storage in low emission scenarios (Vaughan et al., Environmental Research
Letters, 29 Mar 2018)
> VIDEO: BECCS (Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 7 May 2018)
> Gasification of coal and biomass as a net carbon-negative power source for environment-friendly electricity generation in China (Lu et al.,
PNAS, 7 Mar 2018)
> Carbon debt payback time for a biomass-fired CHP plant - a case study ... (Madsen & Bentsen, BIoenergies, 31 Mar 2018)
> BECCS factsheet (American University, 2018)
> The dubious promise of biomass plus carbon capture (Martin, MIT Technology Review, 8 Jan 2016)
> Biomass and carbon dioxide capture and storage: a review (Kemper, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, Sep 2015)
> Net benefits of biomass under scrutiny (Zeller, NY Times, 18 Jun 2010)
> MOVIE: 'Burned'
> Europe is burning U.S. wood as climate-friendly fuel but green groups protest (Charles, NPR, 4 Dec 2019)
> Massachusetts bill would block logging, late state forests keep their carbon (Petersen, Ars Technica, 26 Nov 2019)
> Sucking carbon out of the air is no magic fix for the climate emergency (Lewis, The Guardian, 1 Aug 2019)
> Drax's great biomass carbon capture experiment (Vella, Power-Technology.com, 20 May 2019)
> VIDEO: Step change technology for CO2 capture (C-Capture)
> Techo-economic assessment of bio-energy with carbon capture and storage systems in a typical sugarcane mill in Brazil (Restrepo-Valencia
and Walter, Energies, 20 Mar 2019)
> Carbon capture on power stations burning wood chips is not the game changer many think it is (Occone, The Conversation, 14 Feb 2019)
> Suck it up: the ultimate guide to negative-emission techologies (Rathi, The Quartz, 8 Oct 2018)
> Evaluating the use of biomass energy with carbon capture and storage in low emission scenarios (Vaughan et al., Environmental Research
Letters, 29 Mar 2018)
> VIDEO: BECCS (Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 7 May 2018)
> Gasification of coal and biomass as a net carbon-negative power source for environment-friendly electricity generation in China (Lu et al.,
PNAS, 7 Mar 2018)
> Carbon debt payback time for a biomass-fired CHP plant - a case study ... (Madsen & Bentsen, BIoenergies, 31 Mar 2018)
> BECCS factsheet (American University, 2018)
> The dubious promise of biomass plus carbon capture (Martin, MIT Technology Review, 8 Jan 2016)
> Biomass and carbon dioxide capture and storage: a review (Kemper, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, Sep 2015)
> Net benefits of biomass under scrutiny (Zeller, NY Times, 18 Jun 2010)
> MOVIE: 'Burned'
Algae for C sequestration:
> This algae bioreactor can remove as much carbon dioxide as an acre of trees (Brown, Inverse.com, 17 Sep 2019)
> This algae bioreactor can remove as much carbon dioxide as an acre of trees (Brown, Inverse.com, 17 Sep 2019)
Organizations:
> Energy Coop of Vermont: current selection & prices of wood pellets
> Vermont Wood Pellet Company, West Clarendon, VT - Manufacturers of high quality pellets from local pine logs
> Energy Coop of Vermont: current selection & prices of wood pellets
> Vermont Wood Pellet Company, West Clarendon, VT - Manufacturers of high quality pellets from local pine logs
Resources:
> Forest Stewardship program of US Forest Service as implemented by Vermont ANR's Dept. of Forests, Parks and Recreation
> Forest Stewardship program of US Forest Service as implemented by Vermont ANR's Dept. of Forests, Parks and Recreation