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 Stories About: Arizona AND carbon sequestration AND coal AND energy AND renewable energy AND solar voltaic power AND Texas
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Alternate futures
Two huge power plants offer different paths forward |
David Roberts |
22 Feb 2008 |
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| In Sweetwater, Texas, a company called Tenaska has applied to build what will be the nation's first bona fide "clean coal" plant -- an IGCC plant that will capture and sequester CO2 emissions. (Said emissions will be used to pump more oil out of the Permian Basin oil fields, which will then be burned and create more CO2, but who's counting?) The 600MW plant is projected to be completed in 2014. Meanwhile, Spanish engineering firm Abengoa has signed a deal w ... |
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| Topics: Arizona, carbon sequestration, coal, energy, renewable energy, solar voltaic power, Texas (all these topics) |
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