Capture ready

I was recently told that some coal fired power stations in the states were willing to make themselves carbon capture ready (CCR) - ie. position themselves (when built) so that they have at least the option of fitting carbon capture and storage to them further down the line.

If they're not capture ready CCS will never happen on them, so that's a good thing.

Essentially the biggest thing to be done is to ensure that they've got lots of land next door to build the capture plant on, although the possiblity to take off steam in the turbines also, I'm told, has to be considered (although this can be done later).
A route for the Carbon Dioxide out also has to be considered.

Plants in India are also doing the same thing.

What was surprising is that the plants in America insisted on it being called something else - not 'capture ready'. Essentially "green" groups have smeered the name so much that the plants can't now publicise it.

I think that's sad - where "green" pressure groups are campainging so strongly against 90% emission reductions that they almost don't happen.