The project, which includes funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, was submitted under the Clean Coal Power Initiative Program (CCPI), a cost-shared collaboration between the US federal government and private industry to demonstrate low-emission carbon capture and storage technologies in coal-based power generation plants.
Scheduled to begin operating in 2013, NRG’s carbon-capture demonstration project at WA Parish will be among the first of its kind. It will use Fluor Corporation’s Econamine FG Plus technology to process flue gas from the plant, capturing 90 per cent of CO2, or approximately 400,000 metric tons of CO2 annually.
Once captured, the CO2 will be compressed and used in enhanced oilfield recovery operations.
Nanogenerator consumes CO2 to generate electricity
Whoopee, they've solved how to keep a light on but not a lot else.