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San Diego green activist and business developer Janique Goff is always ecstatic about advancements toward sustainability when it comes to the country’s industries, which constitutes the bulk of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. For years, the progress of clean energy has been hindered by business viability and a deeply entrenched dependence on fossil fuels.
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Now that the US Federal Department of Energy has been pushing forward with its pilot project for FutureGen 2.0, the environment buff is understandably thrilled.
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| From Janique Goff Photos |
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| From Janique Goff Photos |
Slated to be the world’s first near-zero emissions, commercial scale, coal-fueled power plant upon completion in 2015, FutureGen 2.0 will combine carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies and oxy-combustion technology and use coal reserves to generate near-zero emission power for businesses and companies.
Janique Goff and many others believe that this “clean coal technology” addresses the two-headed obstacle of reducing emissions significantly while at the same time maintaining industry-grade production levels.
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With the help of the US Energy Department, the FutureGen Alliance will repower an existing Ameren coal-fueled power plant in Meredosia, Illinois. Ameren’s oil-fueled boiler will be replaced with an oxy-combustion coal-fueled boiler that sends steam to the system’s existing steam turbine generator, thereby producing electricity while allowing for carbon dioxide capture. A pipeline operating no higher than a pressure of 2,200 psig will run from Ameren in Meredosia to Morgan County, where the steam will be injected for permanent storage through a porous layer of rock more than three quarters of a mile beneath the ground.
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