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    UK builds negative-emission power stations, coal power stations turn into industrial "carbon absorbers"

    • Last Update: 2022-11-19
    • Source: Internet
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    Recently, the British company Drax will transform a large coal power station into a negative emission power station, turning it into the world's largest industrial "carbon absorber": abandoning coal, burning wood biomass instead, and sequestering the carbon emissions produced, and then replanting the burned trees
    .

    At present, the negative emission power station has begun to gradually replace coal
    with biomass.
    Drax VP said: "Since the beginning of July, half of the electricity production has come from burning biomass
    .
    The Drax large coal plant, with 12 cooling towers, is one of the world's largest sources of
    greenhouse gas emissions.
    It would meet one-tenth of the UK's electricity needs, at the cost of up to around 23 million tonnes of CO2 emissions
    a year.
    The project plans to capture 2 million tonnes of CO2 a year from 2020 and bury it under the North Sea through a 165-kilometre pipeline
    .
    As the project progresses, about 600,000 households will eventually have access to negative emissions
    .
    British industry insiders said: "Negative emission power stations are a very exciting new technology, which means that carbon dioxide
    in the atmosphere can be reduced.
     

    Recently, the British company Drax will transform a large coal power station into a negative emission power station, turning it into the world's largest industrial "carbon absorber": abandoning coal, burning wood biomass instead, and sequestering the carbon emissions produced, and then replanting the burned trees
    .

    Negative emission power stations
    At present, the negative emission power station has begun to gradually replace coal
    with biomass.
    Drax VP said: "Since the beginning of July, half of the electricity production has come from burning biomass
    .
    The Drax large coal plant, with 12 cooling towers, is one of the world's largest sources of
    greenhouse gas emissions.
    It would meet one-tenth of the UK's electricity needs, at the cost of up to around 23 million tonnes of CO2 emissions
    a year.
    The project plans to capture 2 million tonnes of CO2 a year from 2020 and bury it under the North Sea through a 165-kilometre pipeline
    .
    As the project progresses, about 600,000 households will eventually have access to negative emissions
    .
    British industry insiders said: "Negative emission power stations are a very exciting new technology, which means that carbon dioxide
    in the atmosphere can be reduced.
     
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