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BP: A power plant that reuses carbon dioxide?

Posted by Yankee on February 11, 2006 - 8:05pm
Topic: Supply/Production
Tags: carbon dioxide, co2 injection, petroleum coke, power plants, sequestration [list all tags]

The New York Times business section has an article that starts with the following paragraph:
Subsidiaries of BP and Edison International said yesterday that they were planning to build a power plant that would run on oil residues, and that 90 percent of the carbon dioxide would be captured and pumped into an oil field, where it would help push more oil to the surface.

According to the article, the gasification process that will be used in the California plant is said to be similar to what Bush talked about in the SotU when he mentioned "zero-emission coal-fired plants".
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