TECHNOLOGY REVIEW - Picking a Winner in Clean-Coal Technology - A new MIT study says that no single technology is the solution to economically cutting carbon-dioxide emissions from coal.

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Technologies for cleaning up one of the cheapest and dirtiest sources of electricity--coal--are promising. But an MIT study released last week suggests that no single technology will do the trick. (See "The Precarious Future of Coal.")

According to the MIT report, a clean-coal solution will likely lie in a combination of several new technologies for capturing carbon dioxide and storing it to keep it out of the atmosphere. "The world is going to have to do something to adopt serious constraints on the emission of greenhouse gases, and carbon dioxide in particular," says John Deutch, professor of chemistry at MIT and one of the authors of the study. "All of these approaches are promising. All these technologies are amenable, at some cost, to carbon capture and sequestration. We do not see that there is any reason to pick a technology winner today. There are several different avenues that should be pursued."

Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center - Burning Fossil Fuels creates a gas made up of what the substance is made of, but the efficiency of collecting, burning, and using these biproducts can increase and become more efficient. Either way, you burn Fossil Fuel you create CO2.

(THEORY - Technology may not have been created to reduce the CO2)

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