Sweeping renewable energy technologies have been deployed in recent years, stemming from concern about climate change and energy security. But for all the investment and media headlines garnered by the renewable energy industry, those technologies still account for less than 2 percent of worldwide electricity consumption. Coal, in fact, still generates about 40 percent of the world's electricity and will continue to do so in the near future. However, there is a solution to noxious greenhouse gases and atmospheric concerns and it comes in the form of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies. It is now possible using various technologies to harness the caustic fumes being churned out by coal plants around the globe.
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