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First Look at Carbon Capture and Storage in a West Virginia Coal-Fired Power Plant [Slide Show]
NEW HAVEN, W.Va.—A 100-story smokestack belches a roiling, white cloud of water vapor, carbon dioxide and other leftover gases after burning daily as much as 12,000 tons of coal at the Mountaineer Power Plant —a total of 3.5 million tons a year.
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How Noise Can Help Quantum Entanglement
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Can Closing the Ozone Hole Also Help Combat Climate Change?
First Look at Carbon Capture and Storage in a West Virginia Coal-Fired Power Plant [Slide Show]
Novel Analysis Confirms Climate "Hockey Stick" Graph
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How Threatened Are Killer Whales in the Wild?
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