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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Petra Nova Project Breaks Ground on World’s Largest Post-Combustion Carbon Capture Project

Petra Nova Project Breaks Ground on World’s Largest Post-Combustion Carbon Capture Project

By U.S. Department of Energy
Petra Nova Groundbreaking
A coal-fired power plant in Texas is on its way to capturing 1.4 million tons of CO2 that previously would have been released into the air. Rather than building an entirely new facility, the Petra Nova project will apply carbon capture technology to an existing coal-fired power plant — helping to advance the technologies that enable cleaner, safer

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