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Using CO2 Emissions to Pump Oil May Help the Climate
2014-07-31 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Carbon capture and storage is often talked about as a way to keep major polluters' carbon dioxide emissions out of the atmosphere by tucking them away safely underground forever. But carbon capture and storage, or CCS, could be used more often in a rather counterintuitive way: To produce crude oil, which releases its own CO2 emissions when it's burned, helping drive climate change. Here's the twist: Experts say producing more oil using CO2 captured from coal-fired power plants may actually...
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