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Zero CO2 Coal Plant to Start Up in Germany - Greens Unhappy Anyway
BERLIN (AFP) -- One of Europe's biggest power companies inaugurates on Tuesday a pilot project...potential breakthrough in the fight against climate change. But green campaigners have denounced the project as a cosmetic operation that does not really address the problem of global warming.[claim by the Greens is that the same company is building regular coal plants elsewhere but maybe they are ticked that people are allowed to have electricity in the first place] At the site of the massive "Schwarze Pumpe" ("Black Pump") power station in the old East Germany... captures the greenhouse gases produced when fossil fuels are combusted.... The captured gases are then sharply compressed until they become liquid and are injected deep underground... in a gas field in northern Germany [cost per KWH isn't given possibly because its really, really high]. Posted by: mhw 2008-09-09 |
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