Areva senior vice president Alain Bucaille dismissed allegations that climate change would not be contained until new technological innovations were set up. At the 2009 French Energy Forum in
However, he said that the cost of deployment of the technologies – in electricity and transportation – would be significantly higher than the current cost. And the use of carbon capture and storage systems would only be a viable option in countries where the geology is already in existence.
Such commercialization would be given impetus by the fact that coal and nuclear would probably remain the mainstay base-load generation options for many years to come, even as renewable technologies were improved and played an increasing role in the power mix.
However, such capture and storage would add significantly to the cost of electricity production and would not be an option for about one-third of the globe, given that geological support systems were simply absent.