Confronting Climate Change: Using the energy in oil shale without releasing carbon dioxide in a greenhouse world

Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions

English - September 26, 2011 14:00 - 1.3 MB - ★★★★ - 3 ratings
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New technology that combines production of electricity with capture of carbon dioxide could make billions of barrels of oil shale — now regarded as off-limits because of the huge amounts of carbon dioxide released in its production — available as an energy source. That’s the conclusion of a report on electricity production with in situ carbon capture EPICC in ACS’ journal Energy and Fuels.