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Mounting Costs Slow the Push for Clean Coal

Coal is abundant and cheap, assuring that it will continue to be used. But the failure to start building, testing, tweaking and perfecting carbon capture and storage means that developing the technology may come too late to make coal compatible with limiting global warming. The Electric Power Research Institute, a utility consortium, estimated that it would take as long as 15 years to go from starting a pilot plant to proving the technology will work.
Published On:	5/30/2008
Submitted On:	6/2/2008 8:39:22 PM by Frank K
Categories:	Energy

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