article_snippet.sent: Many nations are looking into Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies as a way to cut Many nations greenhouse house emissions, of which carbon dioxide plays a large role.
article_snippet.sent: CCS refers to the process of capturing carbon released by burning fossil fuels and storing CCS in porous rock layers in areas such as depleted oil and gas reservoirs.
article_snippet.sent: The technology has the potential to reduce the emissions of a typical coal-power plant by up to 90 per cent, but there are concerns over storing such huge amounts of carbon underground.
article_snippet.sent: The government’s Energy White Paper has an idea of how to overcome this.
article_snippet.sent: After noting that industrial processes, which rely on the combustion of fossil fuels, are responsible for a significant proportion of Australia’s carbon dioxide emissions, The government’s Energy White Paper says: ‘If the CO2 can be captured before the CO2 is released to the atmosphere the CO2 can either be utilised in other products or permanently stored in deep geological formations.
article_snippet.sent: Australia has worked closely with other countries which rely heavily on fossil fuels to investigate opportunities to utilise CO2 in products such as carbonated drinks and plastics or to enhance the growth of oil-rich algae in solar bioreactors to produce biofuel.
article_snippet.sent: While these processes are promising, there is no commercial CO2 re-use in Australia, largely reflecting the high cost of capturing the CO2 from a flue gas stream.
article_snippet.sent: So if the gas came from a recycled source, the gas could play a small role in helping the environment.
article_snippet.sent: But geologists came to the defence of the controvertial method of mitigating global warming.
article_snippet.sent: Although there are concerns about burying billions of tonnes of CO2 underground, engineers have been doing something similar for decades.
article_snippet.sent: That hasn’t happened with carbon dioxide disposal, but That has happened with dams on a tiny scale.
article_snippet.sent: Last year, the UK government said the UK government will fund a multi-million pound project to design a carbon capture and storage plant at the Peterhead power station in Scotland.
highlights_snippet.sent: Australian  report suggests ways carbon dioxide could be captured .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Other ideas include typical Carbon Capture and Storage and biofuels .