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extract, unconventional hydrocarbons will contribute to the nation’s energy portfolio. Meeting future world-wide energy demand will also require exploration, extraction, and production of these unconventional fuel sources. Unconventional hydrocarbons include deposits found in oil shale and tar sands. Unconventional fuel sources, however, are carbon intensive and require large quantities of water to produce crude oil.4 Without carbon sequestration and other carbon mitigating technologies, production of unconventional fuel sources is environmentally harmful. Carbon Capture and Sequestration Although plants, soil, and the ocean naturally store carbon dioxide, the term carbon capture and sequestration most commonly refers to the process of injecting carbon dioxide captured from coal power plants underground for storage. Such injections are technically possible at locations that meet specific geological characteristics, including depleted oil and gas reservoirs, unmineable coal seams, deep saline formations, shale, and basalt formations. In fact, energy companies have been employing this process for decades to extract more oil and gas from their reservoirs. Theoretically, carbon sequestration would allow the United States to maximize the potential of its abundant coal resources while minimizing the harmful carbon dioxide emissions of coal power plants. The costs of carbon sequestration include capture, transport, and sequestration underground, as well as monitoring and maintaining the system. The process of sequestration would require involvement from federal and state agencies such as the EPA, insurance companies, carbon dioxide producers, sequestration site operators, and landowners. In addition, construction costs need to be considered. The potential positive environmental impact of effective carbon sequestration is enormous though the technology has yet to be proven. According to NETL, “post- combustion, pre-combustion, and oxy-combustion capture systems being developed are expected to be capable of capturing more than 90 percent of flue gas CO2.”5 However, many unanswered questions exist. With geologic sequestration, fears exist that carbon dioxide will leak into the water table. Also, earthquakes could release large amounts of carbon dioxide into the immediate surroundings of a storage site and into the atmosphere. Storing carbon in the ocean by pumping it deep underwater could prove disastrous if it disrupts fragile marine ecosystems. Carbon sequestration is still undergoing extensive research. In Germany, however, a clean coal plant using geologic carbon sequestration recently went online. According to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study, the largest current carbon sequestration project is attempting to inject 1 million tons of carbon dioxide from the Sleipner gas field into a saline aquifer under the North Sea.6 The DOE, EPA, and a handful of energy companies are still trying to implement carbon sequestration policies and technologies. FutureGen, a project between the FutureGen Industrial Alliance and the DOE, sought to design, build, and operate a clean coal power plant in Eastern Illinois. The goal of the project was to capture and store 1 million metric tons of carbon for 4 118PDF Image | Shaping Energy Technology Transition
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