Benefits
- Fossil fuels are capable of generating electricity 24 hours per day unlike renewables such as wind and solar.
The Gemasolar plant using Molten Salt Storage with concentrated solar thermal has achieved 24 hour generation in Spain. Although this is small scale at 20MW, it shows capability.
- Australia has significant deposits of coal allowing economic benefits for years to come without significant environmental impacts.
- CCS can be used to capture CO2 from high-emission industrial processes such as the making of certain chemicals, steel and cement.
- CCS, when it comes on line, is likely to make the greatest impact in reducing greenhouse gas emissions during the transition to sustainable energy supplies.
Read more about this topic: Carbon Capture And Storage In Australia
Famous quotes containing the word benefits:
“It is with benefits as with injuries in this respect, that we do not so much weigh the accidental good or evil they do us, as that which they were designed to do us.—That is, we consider no part of them so much as their intention.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“When your parents are in political life, you aren’t normal. Everybody talks about the benefits, but I don’t know what the benefits are.... But I’d rather have that kind of mother than an overweight housewife.”
—Katherine Berman Mariano (b. 1957)
“One of the benefits of a college education is, to show the boy its little avail.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)