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Why FutureGen had to die
The blind alley of more coal |
John McGrath |
25 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Thomas Homer-Dixon, whose book I adore, has written an op-ed in The Globe and Mail arguing in favor of large government investments in carbon capture and sequestration technology. His advocacy of CCS has long confused me -- my reading of his book suggested (to me, anyway) that large-scale CCS was precisely the kind of technology we should avoid like the plague. To recap: Homer-Dixon builds on the work of Joseph Tainter, who argues that societies respond to pressures ... |
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| Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, coal, energy, fossil fuels, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics) |
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