Carbon Capture and Storage: Settling the German Coal vs. Climate Change
Dispute?
Fischer, C., Praetorius, B. with contributions of Pehnt, M. & Schumacher,K.
Year of publication: 2006
in: TIPS discussion paper 7
Coal is Germany's major domestic
energy resource and electricity generation input. The country is a
major lignite producer, while hard coal mining has declined in favour
of imports. Altogether, coal provides almost 52 % of the fuel inputs
for electricity generation. Under business as usual conditions, this
picture is unlikely to change in the near future. With regard to
sustainability, the extraction and combustion of hard coal and lignite
for electricity generation is a heatedly debated issue. Coal proponents
claim that coal use ensures security of energy supply at low cost.
Under the conditions of a nuclear phase-out, they see no alternative to
it. Environmentalists argue that coal mining and combustion are
responsible for landscape destruction and that they threaten the
earth’s climate more than any other single energy source. Carbon
capture and storage (CCS) could be considered to be an innovative
approach to these issues. CCS promises to enable the low-emissions coal
power station. However, the technology is unlikely to be available
before 2020 and it remains unclear at what cost. Also, storage
capacities are limited.
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