November 6, 2009 | 32 comments

First Look at Carbon Capture and Storage in a West Virginia Coal-Fired Power Plant [Slide Show]

The world's first power facility to capture and store a portion of its carbon dioxide has begun operating in Appalachia

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The Mountaineer Power Plant (pictured here) is the first in the world to capture some of the carbon dioxide it emits from burning 3.5 million tons of coal yearly and sequester it two and a half kilometers underground.

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