A hopeful project collapsed to have promised the desired «Coal». Despite the expectations that had been deposited, the only thing that was achieved was the loss of billions.
Some already catalog it as a monumental failure. Coal has been seen for decades as one of the most polluting fossil energy sources, both in greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution.
The technology to generate Coal It was created by the coal industry in the 90s. Since 2000, the coal industry has been asking for development and investments in coal-fired power stations that, with a carbon collection and storage technology, become neutral in greenhouse gases.
Despite the billions of dollars that have invested for this purpose, no large coal could show that the coal generates with emissions almost zero. While some mourns because they have not achieved the expected result with the SU -FACKS CoalOthers look at what the Future of Energy seems to be: renewable energetic.
Clean coal disappointed for the whole world: this was what happened
One of the most revolutionary projects with regard to the technology of carbon collection was the project Rag. This initiative corresponded to half of a power plant of millions of dollars Mississippi Used to gasify brown coal and store the recorded carbon emissions. In 2021 it was implemented by the unit Mississippi Power de Southern Co. Because it was not necessary to keep his team.
The installation Plant Ratcliffe He got the appearance of the world on her. This aspect is not strange in view of the fact that it should be the first carbon reception project on a large coal -fired power plant in US. What many knew if “Rag“He was arrested after various delays and the increase in costs.
This scenario resulted in the supervisors of public services of Mississippi They would conclude in 2017 that the installation was only viable with natural gas.
So, so, Southern The lifting of the area canceled for carbon collection from the power plant. The employees spent about a year, with a total of 70,000 hours of work, removing equipment from the factory Ratcliffe that were not necessary to generate electricity.
This was mentioned by the Portavoz Jeff Shepardas stated E&E and News from political: “It’s so great that they had to make a controlled implosion. It is really the team that is not in production.”
The clean coal dream faded: they took out their teams because they were no longer needed
This framework covered approximately half of the building, which organized the gasser to convert Ligantkool, in addition to some mechanical and chemical equipment.
In this way the dream of clean coal faded, in which China was once very interested. The adjacent coal mine, which was used at the time to deliver the carbon catch system, eventually covered grass, with trees that started to grow at the top.
However, this is not the last chapter of carbon capture technology at this location. In 2020, the Department of Energy provided to the Energy Board of the Southern States A subsidy to support an analysis of $ 23.5 million to rule if it is feasible to save carbon dioxide of three of the energy factories of Southern and Allabama y Mississippi.
Many will continue to dream of clean coal, while renewable energy sources are gaining ground
There are also other experts who seem to be clear that carbon collection is not viable. The authors of a report published in 2021 by the Carbon Tracker InitiativeA group of non -profit experts, stated that carbon collection and storage corresponded to an uninterrupted technology with which investors and electric companies are not allowed to play as a reason to keep the factories in operation.
While some retain the hope that “Coal»There is once, others are already concentrating their efforts in help for industrial low -carbon and renewable energy sources.