A controversial and experimental technology that hopes to scrub coal-fired power production of its carbon emissions and store them underground could indeed be an affordable tool in the European Union's toolbox of alternative energy systems that aim to fix our climate problems, according to a new report.
The technology - "carbon capture and storage" or CCS - is the main mechanism for improving the environmental impact of coal plants within a panoply of technologies that are often promoted as 'clean coal' by such politicians as George Bush and the coal industry.
The technology - which is actually three different technologies that are still very much under development, the most effective of which is yet to be established - involves 'capturing' the carbon from the burning of coal and 'storing' this CO2 somewhere - perhaps in an exhausted oil field, deep underground or underwater - forever - so that the carbon does not enter the atmosphere.
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