Recycling carbon dioxide
SEP 30, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024703
New Scientist : “Carbon dioxide may be bad for the climate, but it’s good for the roses,” writes New Scientist‘s Phil McKenna. Dutch greenhouses have, according to McKenna, been successful in recycling captured CO 2. They have been piping it in from nearby industries, such as oil refineries; the CO 2 has helped the plants grow up to 30% faster than normal. Yet FutureGen , the US flagship effort at carbon capture and sequestration, has faced numerous challenges, most recently the Department of Energy’s decision not to finance construction of a new plant but to contribute $737 million to remake an old one instead.
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