World's First Really Clean Coal Plant Gets a Try-Out in Germany

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sat Sep 6, 2008 2:06 PM EDT

Article Source: discovermagazine.com

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Next week, German officials will flip the switch and turn on the world's first coal-fired power plant to use carbon capture and storage technology, in which carbon dioxide is stripped out the plant's emissions and pumped deep underground. This "clean coal" technology has been hailed as a possible way to get cheap energy without further contributing to global warming.

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