FutureGen is a project of the US government to build a zero-emissions coal-fired power plant that produces hydrogen and electricity while using carbon dioxide sequestration. The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America, the States, or (archaically) Columbia—is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii). ... Coal is a fossil fuel extracted from the ground by deep mining, coal mining (open-pit mining or strip mining). ... A power station (also power plant) is a facility for the generation of electric power. ... General Name, Symbol, Number hydrogen, H, 1 Chemical series nonmetals Group, Period, Block 1, 1, s Appearance colorless Atomic mass 1. ... Lightning strikes during a night-time thunderstorm. ... Carbon sequestration from a fossil-fuel power station A carbon dioxide sink or CO2 sink is a carbon reservoir that is increasing in size, and is the opposite of a carbon source. The main sinks are the oceans and growing vegetation. ...

FutureGen will be a 275-megawatt power plant expected to take 10 years to build and whose cost will be shared - $620 million by the Department of Energy and $250 million by a large consortium of coal mining and power industry companies. It will be operated as a research facility. The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government responsible for energy policy and nuclear safety. ...

FutureGen will seek to sequester carbon dioxide emissions at an operating rate of one million metric tons per year in order to adequately stress test a representative portion of a geologic formation (with a capability up to two million tons per year). [1]

States have bid to host the demonstration project, and foreign participation has been solicited (since by 2020 more than 60% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are expected to come from developing countries). Increasing atmospheric CO2 levels as measured at Mauna Loa. ...

Future plants based on FutureGen should qualify for several provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (H.R. 6) is an act which was passed by the United States Congress in an attempt to combat growing energy problems. ...

References

• Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy FutureGen page
• Bids by states to host FutureGen

See also

• Clean coal
• Combined cycle
• Gasification
• Asia-Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate
• [2] Marshall University Studies related to the Clean Coal Initiative