Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Big Coal: Carbon Sequestration In Coal Mines

After spending a bit of time in this area, you start to get a feel for where the money is being invested. It should be no surprise that the big money is currently going into coal mine and oil well carbon sequestration...thus enabling the continued use of fossil fuels. That's where the money is in the world.

CO2 in Deep Coal Seams

The Coal-Seq II Consortium: Advancing the Science of CO2 Sequestration in
Deep, Unmineable Coalseams

Funded by:
U.S. Department of
Energy,

National Energy Technology Laboratory

Cooperative Research Center for Greenhouse Gas Technologies

Illinois Clean Coal Institute

Japan Coal Energy
Center

Shell International Exploration and Production

BP America Inc