Carbon Capture and Storage

1 The technology of Carbon Capture and Storage (‘CCS’), also described as a family of technologies (Zillman, McHarg, Barrera-Hernandez and Bradbrook 13), aims, as its name suggests, at capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from large point sources (power plants) and transporting it to a storage site to depose or store the CO2 in underground geological formations (Fouillac 121–41; Gibbins and Chalmers). The technology consists of several components: i) the capture of CO2 from various point sources (cement factories, chemical factories, fossil fuels plants); ii) to the...