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Posted Fri Jun 11 2010: from Friends of the Earth, via SolveClimate:
Potential of "Clean Coal" to Reduce Emissions is Overstated http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1276289560
A new research paper by Friends of the Earth (FOE) Denmark says that governments and institutions have greatly overstated the potential of CCS to curb greenhouse gases and asserts that even if widely deployed, it would only avoid a "small fraction" of global warming emissions from coal-fired power plants by mid-century.... His research found that about 11 percent of total coal plant emissions would be avoided over the next 50 years - assuming 40 percent of coal plants have CCS by 2050. That means 90 percent of the emissions expected from the world's coal plants would still reach the atmosphere.... "I couldn't believe it," Bendsen told SolveClimate of his "very, very surprising" result.
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'Doc Michael says:
Well... that would just about cover Guangdong Province's emissions, by then.
And only hundreds of billions spent!

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