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A commercialization strategy for carbon-negative energy

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Climate change mitigation requires gigatonne-scale CO2 removal technologies, yet few examples exist beyond niche markets. The flexibility of thermochemical conversion of biomass and fossil energy, coupled with carbon capture and storage, offers a route to commercializing carbon-negative energy.

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Figure 1: Flow diagrams for carbon capture and storage processes.
Figure 2: Lifecycle GHG carbon intensity for IGCC-CCS facilities.

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  1. Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, 94305, California, USA

    Daniel L. Sanchez

  2. Energy and Resources Group, 310 Barrows Hall #3050, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3050, USA, and at the Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, 2607 Hearst Avenue, Room 308, Berkeley, California 94720-7320, USA.,

    Daniel M. Kammen

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Sanchez, D., Kammen, D. A commercialization strategy for carbon-negative energy. Nat Energy 1, 15002 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nenergy.2015.2

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