In honor of Earth Day I am posting my weekly Friday blog on Thursday.
The day provides a good point for reflection on all that i have seen and learned since the sun was last in roughly the same point in space in relation to the earth - i.e. one year ago.
I visited the Schwarze-Pumpe facility close to the German-Polish frontier, where Vattenfall is successfully extracting a stream of carbon dioxide from a coal-burning power generation plant. I mugged around with some fellow journalists near a great big hose, ready to dispatch the CO2 to trucks for eventual storage. It is all being done with existing technology. But it is small scale. The challenge remains ramping it up significantly, and solving the conundrum of where to keep oceans of the gas safely stored underground.
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