Robert Williams heads the Carbon Capture Group of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative at Princeton University. He will be in Fargo on Monday to speak at a conference titled “The Future of Coal and Biomass in a Carbon-Constrained World” to be held at the North Dakota State University Alumni Center on November 2.
In an op-ed article in the Grand Forks Herald, Williams states that the U.S. can substantially reduce carbon emissions "by using an innovative strategy based on technologies near at hand: the repowering of aging coal power plants with gasification systems that make both low-carbon electricity and synfuels (synthetic diesel and/or gasoline) from coal and biomass, while capturing and storing CO2 underground."
"North Dakota could play a major role in evolving gasification-based co-production systems that provide low-carbon electricity and synfuels," Williams writes. "It has the needed resources: extensive reserves of low-cost lignite coal, abundant nonfood biomass and substantial opportunities for enhanced oil recovery. It also is one of the only states that already have comprehensive legislation in place governing CO2 storage."
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