RWE To Test Carbon Capture
The great hope of the coal industry is that coal-fired power stations can somehow be modified to prevent them from releasing CO2 into the atmosphere, thereby rendering them climate-friendly. Germany’s RWE owns several coal-fired stations in the UK and Energy Business Review reports that they will soon be testing two new types of carbon capture technology. The first system, due to go live at Didcot this month, tries to remove CO2 from exhaust gases, while the second system, to be installed at Aberthaw next year, is more closely integrated with the combustion process. A lot of people will be very much hoping that these tests give positive results.
UK Court Acts to Save Planet from Coal
Concern about global warming has penetrated most of the world by now. Here in California our local utility, PG&E, sponsors TV ads encouraging us to help save the planet by saving energy. But in the UK some Greenpeace activists have gone several steps further, and have received court backing for what they did.
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