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Construction Begins on Largest Carbon Capture Project in the World
2014-07-15 16:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Here`s a head-scratcher: Over a million of tons of carbon dioxide a year will be captured from a coal plant near Houston, Texas. Then that captured carbon will be used to get more fossil fuels out of the ground, specifically from an old oilfield that`s been in use since the 1930s. Construction has begun on the Petra Nova Project, which the U.S. Department of Energy is calling "the first commercial-scale post-combustion carbon capture retrofit project in the U.S." The carbon capture will take place...
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