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Clean Coal Era Begins
2014-10-07 15:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: On October 2, the Boundary Dam power plant in Saskatchewan became the first full-sized coal-fired boiler to capture the copious carbon dioxide that had previously billowed from its smokestack, preventing the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere. On the resulting invisible stream of hot smoke ride the hopes of combating climate change while still burning fossil fuels. Such CO2 capture and storage (CCS) "is the only known technology that will enable us to continue to use fossil fuels and...
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