PAST EVENT
Organizing Carbon Capture and Storage Deployment: Returns to Scale for the Coupled Technological System
Seminar
Series: Energy Technology Innovation Policy Seminar Series
Open to the Public - KSG - Taubman 401
April 10, 2008
12:00-1:00 p.m.
| Speaker: | Jeffrey Bielicki, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy |
Related Projects: Energy Technology Innovation Policy, Science, Technology, and Public Policy, Environment and Natural Resources
Description:
Jeff will present his work-in-progress on understanding the returns to scale for carbon capture and storage (CCS) deployment. The talk will introduce an innovation in geospatial optimization methodology for infrastructure planning and deployment, the interaction of the returns to scale for each technological component of the CCS system and how they couple together to determine the returns to scale for the entire system, and a number of policy relevant questions such as the choice of where within a potential storage basin to focus on site-specific reservoir characterization, where to locate injection sites, and where to place trunk distribution pipelines.
CCS has the potential to dramatically reduce the atmospheric accumulation of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted from human activities while simultaneously serving as a bridging technology to less fossil-dependent energy systems. To do so, a system of interlinked technologies that captures CO2 from sources and transports it to geologic storage reservoirs into which the captured CO2 is injected must be deployed at a considerable scale. This technological coupling determines the returns to scale for the entire carbon capture and storage system and suggests how, given the spatial distribution of sources and potential reservoirs, CCS activities should be organized.
Lunch will be served.
Contact:
ETIP Coordinator
Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Mailbox 53, Cambridge, MA 02138
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Harvard Kennedy School
Email: karin_vander_schaaf@harvard.edu
Phone: 617-496-5584
Url: http://www.belfercenter.org/project/10/energy_technology_innovation_policy.html
