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Article: Carbon capture key to CLEAN COAL.(Business)
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- The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)
- Article date:
- August 16, 2009
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Byline: Steven Mufson; The Washington Post
WASHINGTON -- At a bend in the Ohio River, a bulky new device is being attached to a 30-year-old coal plant near the small town of New Haven, W.Va.
The device is being housed in a building four stories tall and bigger than a football field. A 150-foot-tall exhaust stack -- so wide that it would take six adults with their arms fully stretched to reach around it -- will reach into the sky. And pipelines will run out of the building and into saline aquifers two miles underground. The entire contraption will start up as early as September.
The purpose: capturing carbon-dioxide emissions and stashing them ...