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Nature 436, 912 (18 August 2005) | doi:10.1038/436912b; Published online 17 August 2005

Power-plant design should prepare for carbon capture

Jon Gibbins1

  1. Energy Technology for Sustainable Development Group, Mechanical Engineering Department, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK

Your News Feature "China's burning ambition" (Nature 435, 1152–1154; 2005) identifies gasification-based technologies as important for limiting future pollutant and CO2 emissions from China, but it fails to consider another major requirement for any future large-scale reduction strategy. There was no mention of CO2 capture and storage from the hundreds of new coal-combustion power plants that will inevitably be built in China during the coming decades.

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