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chapter 12
China, Coal, and Carbon Capture
The Department of Energy … will embark upon a $1 billion initiative to design, build and operate the first coal-fired, emissions-free power plant—FutureGen.
—Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham, 2003
—Deputy Secretary of Energy Clay Sell, 200
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Importance: Coal use, especially in China, is the source of the greatest increase in CO2 emissions. Carbon capture and storage, is one of the few available solutions.
Main Ideas:
• FutureGen started in 2003, was to be the first US clean-coal plant.
• Pres. Bush promised to spend $2B on it, but spent only 2% of that.
• It was canceled in 2008, and the replacement projects are only half clean.
• In 2006, China was building about 2 coal plants per weak.
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Amazon
China and India have nixed caps. Without these caps, Kyoto fails. What can be done?
Carbonomics explains "wrecking" the economy, "peak oil," caps, carbon taxes, and Kyoto.
About Carbonomics.
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