http://gigaom.com/cleantech/the-future-of-futuregen/ Sun, 27 May 2012 01:35:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/cleantech/the-future-of-futuregen/#comment-8744 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:01:12 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/2007/12/18/the-future-of-futuregen/#comment-8744 [...] A joint effort between the government, coal industry and utilities that faced massive cost overruns, FutureGen was envisioned as a proof-of-concept project for carbon capture and storage technology, which remains untested on a commercial scale. The 2007 proposal to build a federally-backed “cleaner coal” plant put a bee in the bonnets of environmentalists and won big support from lawmakers in Illinois, where the plant was supposed to be built. [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/cleantech/the-future-of-futuregen/#comment-8743 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:00:11 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/2007/12/18/the-future-of-futuregen/#comment-8743 [...] expressed frustration with the slow pace with which the Department of Energy has moved to get its FutureGen clean coal plant up and running: “It is really too bad that the DOE has taken so long to get its demonstration [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/cleantech/the-future-of-futuregen/#comment-8742 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:27:04 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/2007/12/18/the-future-of-futuregen/#comment-8742 [...] build a “hydrogen economy,” the FutureGen plant was expected to cost $1.5 billion. The plant’s site was just announced last month, but the DoE released a statement saying they have not yet approved this site and that projected [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/cleantech/the-future-of-futuregen/#comment-8741 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:16:09 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/2007/12/18/the-future-of-futuregen/#comment-8741 [...] The Future of FutureGenBy Katie Fehrenbacher Whichever state wins will be home to a first-of-its-kind “clean coal” plant that uses coal gasification and technology to capture and store carbon emissions underground. The plant will also produce hydrogen on a commercial scale, …Earth2Tech – http://earth2tech.com Posted in Industry News [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/cleantech/the-future-of-futuregen/#comment-8740 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:57:46 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/2007/12/18/the-future-of-futuregen/#comment-8740 [...] seems FutureGen’s clean coal announcement last week was a bit premature. The Department of Energy (DoE), the main financier of the $1.8 [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/cleantech/the-future-of-futuregen/#comment-8739 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:44:43 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/2007/12/18/the-future-of-futuregen/#comment-8739 [...] by Craig Rubens No Comments Posted December 24th, 2007 at 10:44 am in Big Green It seems FutureGen’s clean coal announcement last week was a bit premature. The Department of Energy (DoE), the main financier of the $1.8 [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/cleantech/the-future-of-futuregen/#comment-8738 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:21:20 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/2007/12/18/the-future-of-futuregen/#comment-8738 Geology & chemistry will keep the CO2 contained. Two or three layers of imperiable caprock.

]]> http://gigaom.com/cleantech/the-future-of-futuregen/#comment-8737 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:20:00 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/2007/12/18/the-future-of-futuregen/#comment-8737 It is Mattoon, IL

]]> http://gigaom.com/cleantech/the-future-of-futuregen/#comment-8736 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:10:03 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/2007/12/18/the-future-of-futuregen/#comment-8736 Who guarantees the CO2 stays stored underground forever?

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