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A Coal-Fired Power Plant In India Is Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Baking Soda (technologyreview.com)
schwit1 quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: In the southern Indian city of Tuticorin, locals are unlikely to suffer from a poorly risen cake. That's because a coal-fired thermal power station in the area captures carbon dioxide and turns it into baking soda. Carbon capture schemes are nothing new. Typically, they use a solvent, such as amine, to catch carbon dioxide and prevent it from escaping into the atmosphere. From there, the CO2 can either be stored away or used. But the Guardian reports that a system installed in the Tuticorin plant uses a new proprietary solvent developed by the company Carbon Clean Solutions. The solvent is reportedly just slightly more efficient than those used conventionally, requiring a little less energy and smaller apparatus to run. The collected CO2 is used to create baking soda, and it claims that as much as 66,000 tons of the gas could be captured at the plant each year. Its operators say that the marginal gain in efficiency is just enough to make it feasible to run the plant without a subsidy. In fact, it's claimed to be the first example of an unsubsidized industrial plant capturing CO2 for use. schwit1 notes: "A 'climate change' project that doesn't involve taxpayer dollars? Is that even allowed?"
Oh goody! The one of the stupidest people on all of Slashdot is glad he can carry a gun, because some people do something that harms him in no way yet of which he does not approve.
Seriously, no matter what your political leanings, no non-retarded person uses the word "libtard". And no non-retarded person assumes that somebody is a liberal just because they have a service dog, or because they do/have anything else you do not like. And clearly no non-retarded person would post such an asinine comment under an article about a coal-fired power plant.
But thanks for the heads up. Now all of Slashdot knows to watch out for some mentally unstable AC with a vendetta against dogs and their owners shooting some innocent folks at a restaurant or plane or shop next time he sees a service dog.