List of tables

Table 1 Breakdown of 2016 US Energy Consumption in EJ by Fuel and End-Use Sector
Table 2 Estimates of Fossil Fuel Reserves from 2016 BP Statistical Review of World Energy
Table 3 Summary of Cost and Performance of CCS from Rubin et al.
Table 4 Carbon Capture Projects for EOR

List of figures

Figure 1 The climate diamond, showing the interactions in the climate system and possible intervention strategies.
Figure 2 Amount of CO2 emitted if we burned all recoverable fossil fuels or fossil fuel reserves compared to carbon budgets required to stabilize global warming at either 2°C or 3°C.
Figure 3 Schematic of the amine process for carbon capture from a coal-fired power plant.
Figure 4 Geographical distribution of sedimentary basins and their thicknesses (courtesy of Jordan Kearns). Source: Jordan Kearns et al., “Developing a Consistent Database for Regional Geologic CO2 Storage Capacity Worldwide,” Energy Procedia 114 (July 2017): 4705.
Figure 5 The Sleipner oil field platform in the North Sea off the Norwegian coast that includes the world’s first large-scale CCS project (courtesy of Statoil).
Figure 6 The Sherwood Plot Source: Adapted from King et al., Separation and Purification: Critical Needs and Opportunities (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1987), 9.
Figure 7 Three scenarios for CO2 emissions trajectories in the twenty-first century. Source: Data from S. Paltsev et al., “Scenarios of Global Change: Integrated Assessment of Climate Impacts,” MIT Joint Program Report Series, report 291 (2016): 6. https://globalchange.mit.edu/publication/16255.