Oslo The Northern Lights Consortium said on Monday that the world’s first commercial service to offer carbon storage from the coast of Norway has offered carbon storage from the coast of Norway.
The project of Northern Lights, headed by the oil giants’ Equinor, Shell and Totalrizzes, includes transportation and burial of CO2 captured throughout Europe. Its purpose is to prevent emissions from being released in the atmosphere, and thus helps prevent climate change.
“We now securely injects and stored in the reservoir,” Tim Hejan said in a statement, Managing Director of Northern Lights. “Our ships, facilities and wells are now in operation.”
In solid words, after the occupation of CO2, it is liquid by a ship in the Oygarden Terminal near Bergon on the west coast of Norway and moved.
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It is then transferred to large tanks, which is injected into the seabed via a 68 mile pipeline, at a depth of about 1.6 miles for permanent storage.
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology is listed as a climate tool by the United Nations inter -government panel on climate change (IPCC) and International Energy Agency (IEA), especially to reduce the CO2 footprint of industries such as cement and steel that is difficult to decorbony.
The first CO2 injection at the Northern Lights Geological reservoirs was from the Headberg Material Cement Plant in Germany in Brevik in South -East Norway.
But CCS technology is complex, controversial and expensive.
Without financial assistance, it is more profitable for industries to buy “pollution permits” on the European carbon market, which is compared to capturing, transporting and storage of your CO2.
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Northern Lights have so far signed only three commercial contracts in Europe. One is with a Yara ammonia plant in the Netherlands, the other with the biofuel plants of Orted in Denmark and the third with Stockholm Excellent Thermal Power Plant in Sweden.
The annual CO2 storage capacity of Northern Lights, largely funded by the Norwegian state, is 1.7 million tonnes, which is expected to increase by 5.5 million tonnes by the end of the decade.
While efforts such as northern lights are focused on capturing carbon directly from the most high-polluting sources-efforts have also been made to catch gas from the piles of industrial smoke, an even more controversial functioning.
Professor Mark Jacobson, a Stanford University Professor of Environmental Engineering, told CBS News earlier this year that he was suspected for motivations and efficacy for both types of carbon capture, and he clearly stated that “direct air is not a real solution. We do not have time to ruin with this useless technique.”
Jacobson feels that direct air occupies, in particular, is a boon, and more effort should be focused on switching to clean energy sources.
Currently, the US receives about 60% of electricity from fossil fuels.
“You have to think about who is the proposal of this technology,” Jacobson said. “Who stands to benefit from carbon capture and direct air capture? It is fossil-fuel companies.”
Jacobson told CBS News, “They are just saying,” Okay, we are extracting as much CO2 as we are emitting. Therefore, we should be allowed to maintain pollution, keep mining, “
“Oh, yes, diesel people hate me, gasoline people hate me, ethanol people hate me, atoms hate me, coal people hate me. They hate me. They do, because I am telling the truth,” he said. “We do not need any of these techniques.”
