China becomes part of FutureGen alliance
The FutureGen alliance is a public-private partnership to develop an integrated coal fired power plant that also produces hydrogen and features carbon sequestration. President Bush announced plans to fund a $1 billion, ten-year project to build a demonstration plant in 2003. Since then South Korea and now China have also joined the alliance. The plant is expected to be the world's first zero-emissions fossil fuel powered plant thanks to the sequestration. The intent is provide clean energy from coal since it so readily available and cheap. As part of the agreement, China and the US also signed an Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Protocol to cooperate on clean technologies like wind, solar and biomass. The 275 MW prototype plant is expected to go online in 2012. Initially ninety percent of the carbon dioxide produced by the plant is expected to be captured, and that percentage will rise to one hundred percent as new technologies are added.
[Source: Department of Energy via GreenCarCongress]
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John Rowell 1:08PM (12/18/2006)
That's great but let's not forget the pollution caused by the coal mining.
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Ian 4:28AM (12/19/2006)
I'm sure they will mandate all sorts of great green tech as soon as they steal it. Hey, it works for all their other technology.
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Tim 11:01AM (12/19/2006)
The Chinese people are hard working, kind and very intelligent. It is the communists (left) who are evil. Their communist leaders know that China’s manufacturing capability with cheap unlimited labor, and abundant natural resources assisted by US debt will allow Communist China to replace the US as the world’s lone superpower. This is the true RED TIDE. Who needs a hot war when you can win through economics? Economics is how the US won the cold war against the Soviet Union and why they ultimately collapsed. Will the USA be next? What about the North American Union? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Union. Can you say comrade in Chinese?
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