REGINA A Saskatchewan city is trying to capture the attention of Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. According to a news release from the City of Estevan, it wants to show off the Carbon Capture and Storage facility (CCS), located at the Boundary Dam Power Station, after Musk posted on social media that he was in search of the best carbon capture technology. Am donating $100M towards a prize for best carbon capture technology Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 21, 2021 “Am donating $100M towards a prize for best carbon capture technology,” Musk wrote on Twitter on Jan. 21. Estevan Mayor Roy Ludwig sent a letter to Musk which details the technology used in the CCS project.
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The United States has been dealing with the impacts of a polar vortex that brought Texas, in particular, to its knees. Wind turbines there froze up, and natural gas infrastructure, built more to handle temperatures in the 40 C range, lacks the insulation to deal with severe cold, resulting in freeze-ups that have reduced gas flow for both heating and power generation in the most energy-rich state in that nation. Over the past few weeks, Saskatchewan has endured its own cold snap, but this is par for the course for SaskPower. The Crown utility has a total system power generation capacity of 4,893 megawatts, if everything is running at 100 per cent. On Feb. 11, it was producing a peak of 3,722 megawatts.