Coal emissions are considered among the dirtiest of fossil fuels, a big source of gases leading to global warming. So, many countries are trying to find ways to clean up these emissions in a race likely to yield billions of dollars for the best technology.
By 2011, Norway will also have a coal-fired power plant. The plan for this is launched by an international group of companies.
The interesting part of it is that the plant would use a new technology — meant to capture more than 95 percent of carbon dioxide, as well as noxious nitrous oxide — in coal fumes from the chimneys of the plant. The new technology is developed by Norwegian clean energy group Sargas.
The international group of companies includes France’s Eramet, U.S. Alcan and Norway’s Norsk Hydro. It would construct firms for a 400-megawatt coal-fired plant in west Norway costing about 4.5 billion crowns ($700 million)!
The plant would help curb global warming by capturing 95 percent of all greenhouse gases emitted!
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