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China,
Coal, and Carbon Capture
The
Department of Energy … will embark upon a $1 billion
initiative to design, build and operate the first coal-fired,
emissions-free power plant—FutureGen.
Secretary
of Energy Spencer Abraham, 2003
The
thing went south.
Deputy
Secretary of Energy Clay Sell, 2008
FutureGen
is history. Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman
pulled the plug on “the thing,” as his deputy called it,
in January 2008. Five years earlier, Secretary of Energy Spencer
Abraham had announced FutureGen would be “one of the boldest
steps our nation takes toward a pollution-free energy future.”
He was talking about the world’s first clean coal-fired power
plant.
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