Coal Sans CO2: Appealing Pipe Dream - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com
I see Andrew Revkin thinks CO2 capture from coal is a pipe dream, literally:
I see Andrew Revkin thinks CO2 capture from coal is a pipe dream, literally:
Overall, I have yet to see anyone rebut the simple calculations of Vaclav Smil, the resource and risk polymath at the University of Manitoba, who has shown how capturing and processing just a small percentage of today’s CO2 from coal combustion would require as much pipeline and other infrastructure as is now used globally to get oil — a costly commodity — out of the ground. Imagine the price required on carbon to make that doable beyond boutique scale.
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