Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Squeaky Clean Fossil Fuels

by Fred Pearce New Scientist, 2 May 2005 Can we continue to burn fossil fuels and still hope to halt global warming? It seems unlikely -- and with the cost of generating wind and solar electricity falling, perhaps unnecessary. Despite this, big money and big politics are lining up behind the development of "zero-emission" power plants that burn coal or gas but release no carbon dioxide. Read the article