Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Optimal bioenergy power generation for climate change mitigation with or without carbon sequestration

  • Dominic Woolf,
  • Johannes Lehmann,
  • David R. Lee

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13160
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Prior mitigation assessments of atmospheric CO2 removal rely on bioenergy carbon capture and storage (BECCS), excluding bioenergy-biochar systems (BEBCS). Here, Woolf et al. find that BEBCS offers an alternative cost-effective solution, and may allow earlier CO2removal at a lower carbon price.