How to Use carbon capture in a Sentence

carbon capture

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Definition of carbon capturenext
  • Blue hydrogen is made from natural gas using carbon capture technology to reduce emissions.
    — Jason Bordoff, Foreign Affairs, 30 Nov. 2021
  • In other words, Team Allam aimed to do carbon capture for free.
    — David Wagman, IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2018
  • In other words, carbon capture is integral to the process.
    — David Wagman, IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2018
  • But since the law’s passage last year, announcements of carbon capture projects — including a large one in Wyoming — have spiked.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Some experts agree the economic promise of carbon capture isn’t yet proven.
    — Christen Smith | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 June 2024
  • Owners of a Texas coal plant equipped one of their four coal-burning generators with the largest carbon capture project attempted to date in the United States.
    — Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2024
  • One big dispute is over how big a role this technology, known as carbon capture and storage, should play in the fight against global warming.
    — Nadja Popovich, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Still, the regulation is expected to lead to greater use of carbon capture equipment.
    — Chris Carlson, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Among the deals are a transmission line in British Columbia, a lithium mining project in Ontario, and a carbon capture and storage project in Alberta.
    — Justin Worland/toronto, TIME, 27 June 2024
  • First, industrial carbon capture projects are far too small to matter.
    — Jonathan Foley, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2023
  • That’s why many in the biofuels industry argue that carbon capture pipelines are the best option to obtaining tax credits.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 18 June 2024
  • As part of the activity, children made seagrass mats to be planted off Plymouth Sound, which will help improve marine health and contribute to blue carbon capture.
    — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2023
  • It can also be produced using natural gas with carbon capture.
    — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2023
  • In a recent study published in the journal Science Advances, researchers also found a way to make carbon capture more efficient by using a hybrid of existing methods.
    — Devika Rao, The Week Us, theweek, 31 Jan. 2024
  • In 2022, however, the state Legislature passed a bill banning carbon capture projects from boosting oil production.
    — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2024
  • There will also be conversations about the role of carbon capture and nuclear energy in achieving global climate goals.
    — Stephanie Ebbs, ABC News, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Many scientists who are currently critical of carbon capture would support such use.
    — Jonathan Foley, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Industrial carbon capture also does nothing to reduce the health damage caused by fossil fuels.
    — Jonathan Foley, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2023
  • An international strategy to export and store CO2 Building a liquid carbon dioxide carrier fleet is just the first step in a viable carbon capture and storage plan.
    — Nithin Coca, Vox, 4 June 2024
  • State regulators directed the plant to switch to burning natural gas, abandoning the original plans for carbon capture.
    — Cecilia Garzella, USA TODAY, 21 May 2024
  • The draft text contains references to accelerating the deployment of carbon capture and storage, a controversial technology that has yet to be proven at scale.
    — TIME, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Failure to make progress now increases humanity’s future reliance on still-nascent technologies like carbon capture, which will attempt to scrub carbon from the atmosphere, the UN emphasizes.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The group also noted that the industry must invest in new technologies such as electric and hydrogen-powered aircraft, as well as scaling up carbon offset and carbon capture technologies.
    — Zachary Folk, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • And they are often ignored by policy makers for their potential in future ecological restoration and carbon capture.
    — WIRED, 14 Oct. 2023
  • For some sectors of the economy, however, like heavy industry and long-haul trucking, the nation will need new and developing technologies such as hydrogen energy and carbon capture and storage.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Energy sources such as nuclear power, hydrogen fuel and natural gas coupled with carbon capture are allowed to count toward the remaining 40%.
    — Nidhi Sharma, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2023
  • But carbon capture is still prohibitively expensive and unproven at scale, while solar energy has become the cheapest power source in history.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 2 May 2024
  • But other world leaders countered that the best way to cut emissions was to switch to cleaner forms of energy like solar, wind, or nuclear, reserving carbon capture for rare situations where alternatives are unavailable.
    — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Indeed, carbon capture and sequestration is analogous to scrubbers – devices that the EPA has required for decades to remove pollutants such as fine particulates, sulfur dioxide and mercury from power plant smokestacks.
    — Patrick Parenteau, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
  • Instead, some are positioning themselves to become major players in renewable energy and carbon capture and storage.
    — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2023

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