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The latest bad news on carbon capture from coal power plants: higher costs

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imageRenewable sources of energy are already more cost-competitive than coal-fired power plants with carbon capture.rpeschetz/flickr, CC BY

Coal powered much of the industrial revolution and continues to fuel economic growth in developing nations, including China and India.

The dark side of coal, however, is that it generates large quantities of the...

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