The US Department of Energy on 15 January formally approved US$1 billion in funding for FutureGen 2.0, a project to demonstrate carbon dioxide capture and sequestration technology in coal-fired electricity generation. Originally proposed in 2003, then cancelled five years later, the FutureGen programme was revived in 2009 by the administration of President Barack Obama. The current plan will retrofit part of a power plant in Meredosia, Illinois, to burn coal under high-oxygen conditions, producing a purified stream of CO_2 emissions that can be stored underground.
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