Alvia, Joshua, etal:
I do no know whether the bill will go anywhere. But I think it would
have a lot more support if it was all-inclusive. That is, support for all
forms of CDR.
This is like calling for support of vertical-axis wind machines or CdTe
photovoltaics. Picking winners is not what Congress is good at.
I can partially understand leaving Biochar out - as that word is still
less than 4 years old. But anyone wishing to see CDR pushed would find plenty
of Biochar activists (lots of farmers and foresters) with a (probably) small
modification of the S. 757 language.
Ron
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On Apr 9, 2011, at 2:48 PM, "Alvia Gaskill" <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's not part of a combined air/source capture strategy. These are both
> considered separately and the emphasis is on ambient air and lower
> concentration sources like oil refineries and not mentioned, but applicable,
> natural gas where the flue gas level is usually around 3% vs. 10 for CO2.
> Since this bill has been around for at least 4 years, it doesn't seem likely
> to get anywhere, especially in the next few months.
>
> http://www.eenews.net/public/eenewspm/2009/11/12/2?page_type=print
>
> CLIMATE: Barrasso, Bingaman float legislation to promote CO2 capture (E&ENews
> PM, 11/12/2009)
> Katie Howell, E&E reporter
> A key Senate Democrat and a leading Republican critic of cap-and-trade
> legislation today introduced a new bill that would award monetary prizes to
> researchers who figure out a way to suck carbon dioxide directly from the air.
>
> Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) and Sen. John
> Barrasso (R-Wyo.) last week introduced the bill, S. 2744, which would
> encourage development of technology to capture CO2 from the atmosphere and
> permanently sequester it. Sen. Michael Enzi (R-Wyo.) is a co-sponsor of the
> legislation.
>
> "Our proposal takes a fresh look at climate change," Barrasso said in a
> statement. "We want to remove carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere."
>
> Scientists and engineers are currently scaling up methods to capture CO2 from
> industrial sources, like coal-fired power plants. The bill would promote
> development of additional technologies to scrub the gases from the air or
> from sources, like oil refineries, that have lower concentrations of the
> greenhouse gas than power plants and factories.
>
> "If we could capture carbon dioxide emitted by low-concentration sources, or
> even the atmosphere, it would be a major step toward a cleaner energy
> future," Bingaman said. "A federal prize to inspire inventive solutions to
> this technical challenge could help us get there quicker."
>
> The bill would establish a federal commission within the Energy Department to
> award prizes to scientists and researchers making headway in the field. The
> nine commission members, who would be appointed by the president, would be
> climate scientists, physicists, chemists, engineers, business managers and
> economists.
>
> Prizes would be awarded to innovators who design technology to mop up CO2 and
> permanently store it. The bill does not establish the amount of the awards.
>
> The bill would allow the United States to share intellectual property rights
> with the inventor after the technology is developed.
>
> "The bill taps into American ingenuity and innovation," Barrasso said. "It
> recognizes the need to develop the technological solutions needed to address
> climate change. With financial awards, we can encourage the extraordinary
> breakthroughs needed to tackle this problem."
>
> Some researchers are already investigating the problem. Scientists and
> engineers from organizations like chemicals giant BASF, glass and ceramics
> maker Corning, Columbia University and the University of Calgary in Canada
> are all investigating new technologies that would capture CO2 from the air.
>
> Their ideas are varied and at different stages of development. But most
> involve using some sort of material to react with CO2 in the atmosphere and
> form a stable solution or mineral.
>
> Other efforts to award monetary prizes for technology development have also
> emerged. Airline entrepreneur Richard Branson and former U.S. Vice President
> Al Gore launched the Virgin Earth Challenge in 2007 to offer $25 million to
> the first demonstrated design to remove 1 billion metric tons of greenhouse
> gases per year from the atmosphere (Greenwire, Feb. 9, 2007). No one has yet
> claimed that prize.
>
> Barrasso introduced similar legislation last session. That bill, S. 2614,
> stalled in the Environment and Public Works Committee.
>
> The new bill has been referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural
> Resources, which Bingaman chairs, and an aide said it could move as part of
> larger energy and climate legislation in the Senate.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Horton" <[email protected]>
> To: "geoengineering" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 3:16
> Subject: [geo] Re: calling all CDRers
>
>
> This report gives the impression that the bill is narrowly focused on
> conventional point-source post-combustion CCS, but note its title: "A
> bill to provide incentives to encourage the development and
> implementation of technology to capture carbon dioxide from dilute
> sources on a significant scale using direct air capture
> technologies." The bill appears to be directed at ambient-air CDR
> combined with CCS, which is more encouraging from the standpoint of
> climate engineering. Of course, there is tremendous distance from a
> bill to a law to implementation to success, so more than a fair amount
> of skepticism is in order.
>
> Josh Horton
> [email protected]
> http://geoengineeringpolitics.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
> On Apr 8, 3:16 pm, "Rau, Greg" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> CLIMATE: Barrasso, Bingaman reintroduce CCS prize bill (04/08/2011)
>> Katie Howell, E&E reporter
>> Sens. John Barrasso and Jeff Bingaman yesterday reintroduced their
>> bipartisan measure that would award monetary prizes to researchers who
>> figure out a way to suck carbon dioxide directly from the air.
>>
>> Barrasso, a Republican from Wyoming, and Bingaman, the New Mexico Democrat
>> who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, first
>> introduced the carbon capture and storage (CCS) legislation last Congress,
>> where it stalled in committee.
>>
>> But Bingaman in recent weeks has targeted CCS as an area with potential for
>> bipartisan cooperation on the committee. Several Republicans, including
>> Barrasso, are co-sponsors of CCS legislation he floated last week (E&ENews
>> PM, April 1).
>>
>> And yesterday, Bob Simon, the committee's Democratic chief of staff, said,
>> "the whole area of carbon capture and storage is one that is ripe for
>> bipartisan cooperation in the Senate."
>>
>> "Frankly, if we can make sure, if we can demonstrate that you can
>> economically capture and store carbon dioxide, you dramatically increase the
>> range of technologies you can call clean energy technologies," Simon said
>> yesterday at an event in Washington, D.C.
>>
>> Barrasso and Bingaman's latest bill (S. 757), which is also co-sponsored by
>> Wyoming Republican Sen. Mike Enzi, would encourage development of technology
>> to capture CO2 from the atmosphere and permanently sequester it by
>> establishing a federal commission within the Energy Department to award
>> prizes to scientists and researchers making headway in the field. The
>> commission members, who would be appointed by the president, would be
>> climate scientists, physicists, chemists, engineers, business managers and
>> economists.
>>
>> Prizes would be awarded to innovators who design technology to mop up CO2
>> and permanently store it.
>>
>> "This bill taps into American ingenuity and innovation," Barrasso said in a
>> statement. "This will increase America's energy security by ensuring the
>> long-term viability of coal and other sources of traditional energy. Our
>> bill provides the technology to eliminate excess carbon in the atmosphere
>> without eliminating jobs in our communities."
>>
>> But despite Bingaman's optimism about moving CCS legislation this Congress,
>> he said earlier this week that no decisions had been made about when the
>> committee would take up the CCS measures.
>
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