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CCS industry fights its corner

With carbon capture and storage technology still in its infancy, there's a danger that enthusiasm for renewables will edge out CCS before it can prove itself, reports Sonja van Renssen.

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Figure 1: The levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) of CCS projects compared with the reference plants without CCS.

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van Renssen, S. CCS industry fights its corner. Nature Clim Change 1, 341–342 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1231

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