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Article: THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN RECEIVES $1 MILLION GRANT TO BUILD CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE WORKFORCE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 16, 2009
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AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 9 -- The University of Texas issued the following news release:
The University of Texas at Austin will use a $994,702 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to help create a skilled workforce for the emerging carbon capture and storage industry and to build public awareness of the technology's benefits to society.
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a process that captures the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels at power plants and pipes it deep underground in places that have suitable properties to contain the gas. Proponents of CCS say the process will make it possible to continue to use domestic coal for electric power while ...