It’s the most porous material known to man, which means it would be perfect for storing hydrogen, or for keeping CO2 from factories out of the air. Meet the metal organic framework.
It could be the answer to global warming -- but researchers at Duke University say captured carbon could also leak into groundwater aquifers, rendering water undrinkable.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that it wants to speed up the implementation of carbon capture and storage with a $3 billion grant for three large-scale CCS projects.
Does clean coal exist? We might soon have the chance to find out now that the U.S. Department of Energy's FutureGen clean coal plant project has been revived. FutureGen's future appeared grim last year when the Bush administration killed the project, but Obama is bringing it back to life with one billion dollars from the stimulus package.
