Where Would Power Plants Carbon Dioxide Emissions Go?
From correspondents in Delhi, India, 06:30 PM IST Rapidly increasing energy demand in India – projected to be 448,000 MW by 2020 – would mean huge emissions of greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. A group of experts explored ways here Tuesday whether carbon capture and storage (CCS) could contain the problem. The two-day workshop of experts, sponsored by Britain’s Department for Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the British High Commission in partnership with India’s Department of Science and Technology and the Planning Commission, sought to find viable ways of CCS. The NGO Integrated Research and Action for Development (Irade) is facilitating the workshop that ends Wednesday. Minister for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal set the ball rolling by expressing scepticism over the utility of CCS in the combat against climate change, given the current cost of transporting carbon dioxide, storing it in an abandoned mine shaft that has to be capped, and then monitoring for the next 100 yea
