How much CO2 is produced by power plants?
A typical coalfired power plant will produce about one ton of CO2 for every megawatt hour of electricity that it generates. A typical power plant using natural gas emits about one-half ton of CO2 per megawatt hour. Source: Benchmarking Air Emissions of 100 Largest Electric Power Producers in the U.S.
Related Questions
- Won’t it be extremely costly and difficult to build long CO2 pipelines from the coal power plants in Pennsylvania and Ohio to the wind farms in Texas, the Dakotas, and other high-wind states?
- Why not just take CO2 from the atmosphere and sequester the carbon from power and biofuel plants?
- How much CO2 is produced by power plants?
