While not the most powerful of the greenhouse gases produced by humanity, CO2 is certainly the most prevalent, if you don’t count water vapor. To a very large extent, addressing climate change depends on three main strategies for dealing with the excess CO2 our activities emit: avoiding its creation by switching to other energy sources, such as renewables or nuclear power; capturing and storing
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Talking Energy: carbon capture and storage
Hot topic: fully operational carbon capture and storage (CCS) is still several years away, but when it finally arrives this “clean coal” technology will change the face of energy generation
Obama orders feds to cut energy use, emissions
President Barack Obama on Monday ordered the federal government — the nation’s largest energy user — to cut its greenhouse gas emissions and to reduce its impact on the environment.
