Thanks to MIT Technology Review: The Download, I learned about Net Power’s natural gas pilot
plant that exhibits a novel carbon capture technology. The text of the MIT post
appears below.
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A game-changing power plant passed
its first big test
Net Power announced Wednesday
that it successfully fired up a
50-megawatt pilot plant near Houston, Texas that has a new kind of
carbon-capture technology.
How it works: The natural gas facility puts carbon dioxide to work, using heat
and pressure to turn it into a "working fluid" that drives a turbine. Excess
amounts of the gas can be siphoned off and sold. The "first fire"
validates the technology, but the company still needs to demonstrate it can
operate economically at scale.
Why it matters: Net Power expects that after building a few commercial-scale
plants, it will beat the costs of standard natural gas plants. That means the
technology could provide a cheap, clean, and flexible source of power for the
grid. That promise is why researchers have been closely following the $140
million demonstration plant—and why we placed the facility on our list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies of
2018.
—James Temple
Source: MIT Technology Review: The Download
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