Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is a technique where biomass is grown and converted into electricity, heat, or fuel, and the carbon emissions from this conversion are captured and stored in geological formations or embedded in long-lasting products. The capture and storage process is similar to the approach in a carbon capture and storage facility connected to a fossil fuel power plant.
Paul Stoy, Selena Ahmed, Meghann Jarchow, Benjamin Rashford, David Swanson, Shannon Albeke, Gabriel Bromley, E.N.J. Brookshire, Mark Dixon, Julia Haggerty, Perry Miller, Brent Peyton, Alisa Royem, Lee Spangler, Crista Straub, Benjamin Poulter
This paper presents an interdisciplinary research framework to examine the trade-offs as well as the opportunities among BECCS scenarios using the Upper Missouri River Basin (UMRB) as a case study.
This paper explores the influence of expertise, actor type, and origin on preferences for investing in BECCS, views of the role of BECCS as a mitigation technology, and assesses the possible domestic barriers to BECCS deployment.
Kerryn Brent, Jan McDonald, Jeffrey McGee , Brendan Gogarty
Using case studies of BECCS and ocean fertilization CDR techniques, this article examines the capacity of current Australian law to govern CDR research.
This Article assesses the legal and policy challenges of decarbonizing the atmosphere itself through negative emission technologies and, in particular, direct air capture.
R. Stuart Haszeldine, Stephanie Flude, Gareth Johnson, Vivian Scott
This article is part of the theme issue ‘The Paris Agreement: understanding the physical and social challenges for a warming world of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels’.
This article explores why nation states need to incentivize negative emissions technologies if they are to take the decarbonization of whole energy systems seriously.
This paper analyzes prospective challenges for negative emissions through examining how decarbonization practices are evolving in one particular landscape: the Imperial Valley in southeast California, a desert landscape engineered for agriculture.