COMPANY TO CAPTURE CARBON

Here's another company going to work to try to prove this yet unproven concept is commercially viable.

Power company plans carbon capture project
March 21, 2007 (UPI)

WHO
The American Electric Power Co. (AEP)

WHAT
AEP plans to capture up to 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year at its coal-based plant and store it on site in a deep saline reservoir, the first commercial carbon dioxide utility capture and geologic storage project.

WHEN
Assessment for retrofitting will begin now and a pilot demonstration project is expected to begin by the summer.

WHERE
AEP Mountaineer Plant in West Virginia

WHY
“Clean Coal” technology, also known as carbon capture and sequestration in a geologically safe containment structure, would theoretically make North America’s massive reserves of coal a safe, accessible, economic source of energy for centuries.
The form of “Clean Coal” technology designated for this project is “oxy-coal combustion.”

QUOTES
"Commendation is due to AEP for its innovative decision and to all hands at the National Energy Technology Laboratory who participated in the underlying sequestration technology development that enabled the decision," said [Thomas Shope, chief of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy]. "I'm confident this decision will prove to be the first of many success stories now underway in our Carbon Sequestration Program."