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Carbon Capture Is "Essential" for Developing World, And Still a Pipe Dream

Proposed GreenGen IGCC coal plant in Tianjin, China Unproven and Expensive Here's a climate conundrum. Last week, the International Energy Agency said that to avoid climate catastrophe, 2,000 carbon capture and sequestration (so called "clean coal")... ...full story at TreeHugger

from TreeHugger on Mon, Oct 19 2009

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