Carbon storage restart: The USrnDepartment of Energy (DOE) has revived and revamped FutureGen, a public-private partnership to build a coal-fired power plant that would capture and store carbon dioxide emissions. In 2008, the DOE cancelled the flagship programme (a new plant in Mattoon, Illinois), citing a dispute with industry partners over the US$1.8-billion price tag. But last year the agency said it would restart the scheme. The new $l-billion project, announced on 5 August, would see an existing coal plant in Meredosia, Illinois, retrofitted with an oxygen-rich fuel boiler, a technique that allows easier separation of carbon dioxide for piping to be stored underground at Mattoon.
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