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Texas Is Primed To Be Our Nation’s Direct Air Capture Hub
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Emily Pickrell, UH Vitality Scholar
IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR NRG – The W. A. Parish energy plant on Friday Sept. 5, 2014 in rural Fort Bend … [+]
Proper now, a lot of the local weather change dialog is targeted on decreasing future emissions.
Whereas that’s important, it represents solely a part of the answer. Some industrial processes – metal, cement and aviation – will show difficult to decarbonize. Having a option to take away this carbon will probably be a part of the answer.
Rising direct air seize know-how is able to deal with that problem. It’s a know-how that local weather activists, the U.S. authorities and the power trade all agree is important to sort out hard-to-abate distributed emissions.
The know-how’s future has simply had an enormous enhance – the Inflation Discount Act. The laws consists of beneficiant help for direct air seize amenities. And the training by doing that these amenities will allow will enhance the economics of initiatives into the longer term.
These incentives complement the 2020 infrastructure laws, which included $3.5 billion for 4 regional direct air seize hubs. The aim of such a hub is to encourage the colocation of complementary infrastructure. To be eligible for presidency funding, any proposed hub web site should reveal that it’s going to ultimately be able to capturing no less than 1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide yearly.
Due to connected funding, many states are making proposals for why their location is sensible, speaking up regional financial improvement wants and different elements to argue their case.
But Texas has a way more compelling and distinctive story: it may well make direct air seize economically possible, with prospects keen to pay for the carbon seize, and in doing so, financing the costly know-how.
That is vital, as a result of the excessive value of direct air seize has been one of many greatest limitations to adoption. Proper now, utilizing direct air seize is estimated to value roughly $500 per ton, in accordance with knowledge offered by the College of Houston. These prices might go all the way down to $300 per ton within the coming years, when the know-how turns into extra environment friendly.
Creating hubs the place these prices could be managed and lowered will probably be important for broad business deployment when the funding for presidency applications ends.
It’s going to encourage corporations to make the large investments that these sorts of rising applied sciences want for additional improvement – which ends up in additional worth decreases.
The excellent news is that a number of Texas-based main power corporations are already committing to those sorts of funding in direct air seize.
They usually have been doing so for years.
Houston-based Occidental Petroleum
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The ensuing oil produced modifications the general economics for these initiatives, changing the carbon right into a invaluable commodity, somewhat than only a waste product to be saved.
A lot of this carbon dioxide-based EOR is happening within the Permian Basin, the place there are numerous depleted reservoirs out there to displace oil and retailer carbon. The trade within the Permian Basin has additionally demonstrated during the last 50 years that they know safely sequester carbon and handle it, with none important menace to surrounding communities. Given the significance of public confidence in regards to the general concept of carbon storage, Texas’ observe report could be an actual asset.
Texas additionally has favorable storage geology, with onshore storage capability for between 661 million and a pair of.4 billion tons of carbon dioxide in its gigantic underground reservoirs. For direct air seize initiatives in Texas’s Permian Basin, there will probably be no want for intensive pipeline infrastructure to maneuver the carbon dioxide to storage amenities.
Once more, an enormous value saver.
Direct air seize amenities are costly to run – about half the general value of the initiatives come from the power required to function them. And provided that the purpose is the removing of carbon from the ambiance, carbon-free fuels needs to be used.
As soon as extra, it’s Texas – this time by a protracted shot.
The Lone Star State is the biggest wind power producer within the U.S. Wind power accounted for 25% of its whole era in 2021, making the sorts of energy calls for of direct air seize appear modest compared. And higher but, it might accomplish that with out the necessity for an enormous infrastructure improve to its powerlines – a lot of the wind era is already in West Texas.
Below the necessities of the laws, the initiatives want to have the ability to seize and sequester or use no less than a million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually. Additionally they must reveal that they may very well be developed right into a regional carbon community for carbon storage.
A number of corporations in Texas are actively engaged on direct air seize options. Chevron and Occidental have each invested in a three way partnership to take carbon straight from the air and subsequently synthesize it into clear transportation fuels. ExxonMobil has spent the final three years working along with World Thermostat on direct air seize to advance “breakthrough know-how and methods to convey it to scale”.
The work these corporations are doing additionally ensures that they are going to have loads of human expertise and direct expertise in place – along with the wealth of power know-how already out there in Texas.
When the bulletins come, Texas ought to function prominently on the checklist.
The success of rising applied sciences like direct air seize really do cling on whether or not they can develop additional by attracting extra funding and turning into financial. Firms needs to be enthusiastic about their capability to make them work and flourish whereas doing so.
No different state could make a case like Texas about the way it is able to make this occur.
Emily Pickrell is a veteran power reporter, with greater than 12 years of expertise masking every thing from oil fields to industrial water coverage to the most recent on Mexican local weather change legal guidelines. Emily has reported on power points from across the U.S., Mexico and the UK. Previous to journalism, Emily labored as a coverage analyst for the U.S. Authorities Accountability Workplace and as an auditor for the worldwide support group, CARE.
UH Vitality is the College of Houston’s hub for power schooling, analysis and know-how incubation, working to form the power future and forge new enterprise approaches within the power trade.
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Collin, Tarrant and Denton cities bring North Texas to over 8.3 million inhabitants
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North Texas remains the most populated region in the state with more than 8.3 million residents, due in part to staggering growth in Collin County, which added more than 145,000 residents in the last four years, as well as continued growth in Fort Worth, which appears to have surpassed Austin as the fourth most populous city in the state.
From 2020 to January 2024, North Texas has gained over 560,000 residents, according to new population estimates by the Texas Demographic Center (TDC). The population explosion is most notable in Collin, Tarrant, Denton, Rockwall, and Kaufman counties. According to the data, these counties lead the state in either numeric gains or percentage increases over the last four years.
Collin County added almost 145,000 residents in the last four years, the most significant increment in the state. The county now has 1.2 million residents, most of them in the cities of McKinney (about 220,000 people), Frisco (220,000 people) and Allen (110,000 people), as of January 2024. Denton County also saw considerable growth and gained more than 100,000 residents over the last four years, surpassing a million inhabitants.
Celina, a city in the counties of Denton and Collin, had over 43,000 residents, according to the January 2024 estimates. This city more than doubled its population from nearly 17,000 people in the 2020 Census.
“Well, I think a lot of that has to do with where we’re located,” elaborated Joe Monaco, Director of Marketing & Communications of Celina City.
“We have Preston on one side; we’ve got the Tollway expanding on the other side. We are 40 miles away from Dallas, and we’re really benefiting a lot from all the businesses that are coming into Dallas and especially the North Texas area.”
Originally from Ohio, Monaco said he lived in Mansfield and Frisco before settling in Prosper with his family during the pandemic.
“What attracted us is that we wanted to be in an area where our kids had great schools like all parents do,’ he said, “and we wanted to be in the area we felt very safe.”
Collin’s growth in the last years has been so rapid that it has already met one of the two scenarios of what this county’s population would be in 2030. The demographic center, in 2012, projected Collin to have 1.2 million people at the end of the decade in a scenario with half of the 2010-2020 migration rates. The second projection (assuming the 2010-2020 migration rates) estimates Collin to reach 1.3 million by the end of 2030, 1.6 million people by 2040, and 2.4 million by 2060.
Other examples of North Texas’ expansion are Kaufman and Rockwall, two neighboring Dallas counties, which experienced the highest percentage growth in population in the state. Kaufman’s population grew by 26.7%, or about 39,000 residents, from 2020 to 2024. Rockwall increased its population by 25% in the same period, growing the county by about 28,000 residents.
Tarrant, in turn, has gained more than 93,000 residents from 2020 to 2024, a 4.4% increase. Its total estimated population is 2.2 million, from 2.1 million last year. Fort Worth alone took in more than 70,000 new residents from 2020 to 2024, and its current population stands at almost 990,000 inhabitants. The newest figures by TDC suggest Fort Worth might have just surpassed Austin in population. The capital of Texas has about 987,000 inhabitants, according to the January 2024 estimates.
“Growth has been explosive,” said Jaime Resendiz, real estate agent and host of The DFW Homeowner, a YouTube channel exploring the housing market in the area. “There’s growth on the south side of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, but the North just blows it out of the water.”
“Anything that is North is just going to have high demand, and typically there, with the real estate prices, you’re seeing the appreciation in these areas just go through the roof,” Resendiz explained.
The Texas Demographic Center releases yearly population estimates that differ from those of the U.S. Census Bureau and use a different methodology. It projects population with a mix of national and local data, as well as state surveys on building permits and school enrollment.
“County-level birth and death data were obtained from the Texas Department of State Health Services,” the methodology report reads.
In the last four years, 90 Texas counties have decreased their population, but none of them are in the North Texas area. Dallas County is among the counties with some of the lowest increments from 2020 to 2024, since it gained only 0.6% in this period. This translates to over 16,000 new residents, and the population remains at 2.6 million, with minimal change over the last four years. The metro area of Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington now has over 8.1 million residents after crossing the 8 million mark last year.
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Here’s Clemson football, Dabo Swinney’s depth chart for first-round CFP game vs Texas
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CLEMSON — Clemson football released its depth chart Monday ahead of its first-round CFP game vs. Texas.
The most notable changes involve the removal of key players who are injured or entered the transfer portal. Backup running back Jay Haynes was removed after suffering a leg injury in the ACC championship against SMU on Dec. 7. Running backs Keith Adams Jr., Jarvis Green and David Eziomume are listed as the No. 2 running back behind Phil Mafah.
Wide receiver Adam Randall also replaced Haynes as the starting kick returner. Clemson’s depth chart removed nickelback Sherrod Covil Jr. and wide receiver Noble Johnson too. Both were backups who entered the transfer portal.
The No. 12 seed Tigers (10-3) will face the No. 5 seed Longhorns (11-2) on Dec. 21 (4 p.m. ET, TNT) in Austin, Texas, at Darrell K Royal Texas Memorial Stadium. The winner advances to play No. 4 seed Arizona State, the Big 12 champion, in the Peach Bowl at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Jan. 1 (1 p.m. ET, ESPN).
Here’s Clemson’s full depth chart before it faces Texas on Saturday:
Clemson football’s offense
QB: Cade Klubnik | Christopher Vizzina
RB: Phil Mafah | Keith Adams Jr. or Jarvis Green or David Eziomume
WR: Antonio Williams | Tyler Brown | Misun Kelley
WR: T.J. Moore | Cole Turner
WR: Bryant Wesco Jr. or Adam Randall | Cole Turner | Hampton Earle
TE: Jake Briningstool | Olsen Patt-Henry | Josh Sapp | Markus Dixon
LT: Tristan Leigh | Mason Wade
LG: Marcus Tate | Harris Sewell
C: Ryan Linthicum | Harris Sewell
RG: Walker Parks | Harris Sewell
RT: Blake Miller | Mason Wade
Clemson football’s defense
DE: Jahiem Lawson | A.J. Hoffler
DT: Payton Page | DeMonte Capehart | Vic Burley
DT: Peter Woods | Tré Williams | Stephiylan Green
DE: T.J. Parker | Cade Denhoff
SLB: Wade Woodaz | Jamal Anderson
MLB: Wade Woodaz | Sammy Brown or Dee Crayton
WLB: Barrett Carter | Sammy Brown or Dee Crayton
CB: Avieon Terrell | Ashton Hampton | Corian Gipson
SS: Kylon Griffin or Tyler Venables | Ricardo Jones
FS: R.J. Mickens | Tyler Venables | Rob Billings
NB: Khalil Barnes | Shelton Lewis
CB: Jeadyn Lukus or Ashton Hampton | Branden Strozier
Clemson football’s special teams
PK: Nolan Hauser | Robert Gunn III
P: Aidan Swanson | Jack Smith
KO: Robert Gunn III
LS (PK): Holden Caspersen
LS (P): Philip Florenzo
H: Clay Swinney
KR: Adam Randall
PR: Antonio Williams
Derrian Carter covers Clemson athletics for The Greenville News and the USA TODAY Network. Email him at dcarter@gannett.com and follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter, @DerrianCarter00
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Texas AG sues New York doctor who allegedly prescribed abortion pills to woman in Lone Star State
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, has filed a lawsuit against a New York doctor who allegedly prescribed abortion drugs to a woman in the Lone Star State, violating Texas law.
Paxton accused Dr. Margaret Carpenter of mailing pills from New York to a 20-year-old woman in Collin County, Texas, where the woman allegedly took the medication when she was nine weeks pregnant, according to the lawsuit.
When she began experiencing severe bleeding, she asked the baby’s father, who had been unaware she was pregnant, to take her to the hospital.
The filing does not state if the woman successfully terminated her pregnancy or if she experienced any long-term medical complications from taking mifepristone and misoprostol.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit accusing a New York doctor of prescribing abortion drugs to a Texas woman, violating laws in the Lone Star State. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Paxton’s lawsuit is the first attempt to test legal protections when it comes to states with conflicting abortion laws since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, ending federal protection on the matter.
Texas has enacted an abortion ban with few exceptions, while New York protects access to the procedure and has a shield law that protects providers from out-of-state investigations and prosecutions, which has been viewed as implicit permission for doctors to mail abortion pills into states with restrictions.
Texas has promised to pursue cases like this regardless of the shield laws, though it is unclear what the courts may decide on this issue, which involves extraterritoriality, interstate commerce and other legal questions. New York’s law allows Carpenter to refuse to comply with Texas’ court orders.
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It is also unknown whether New York courts would side with protecting Texas’ law, which prohibits prescribing abortion-inducing drugs by mail and prohibits treating Texas patients or prescribing medication through telehealth services without a valid Texas medical license.
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The woman allegedly took mifepristone and misoprostol when she was nine weeks pregnant. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Texas’ abortion laws prohibit prosecuting a woman for getting an abortion, but do allow for physicians or others who assist a woman in receiving the procedure to be prosecuted.
The lawsuit says Carpenter, the founder of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, knowingly treated Texas residents despite not being a licensed Texas physician and not being authorized to practice telemedicine in the state. Paxton urged a Collin County court to prohibit Carpenter from violating Texas law and impose civil penalties of at least $100,000 for each violation.
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Texas law states that physicians cannot prescribe abortion medication by mail and forbids physicians without a Texas license from providing telehealth services or prescribing medication to patients in the Lone Star State. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
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“In this case, an out-of-state doctor violated the law and caused serious harm to this patient,” Paxton said in a statement. “This doctor prescribed abortion-inducing drugs — unauthorized, over telemedicine — causing her patient to end up in the hospital with serious complications. In Texas, we treasure the health and lives of mothers and babies, and this is why out-of-state doctors may not illegally and dangerously prescribe abortion-inducing drugs to Texas residents.”
Carpenter also works with AidAccess, an international abortion medication provider, and helped found Hey Jane, a telehealth abortion provider.
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