Climate change: carbon capture technologies @ Radio 4's Costing the Earth

There is the promise of 'clean coal':

“There is a thing called clean coal,” he said. “Coal will last for one thousand years in this country.” Clean coal is often wielded as a kind of magic term, but here Trump was likely referring to capturing the carbon released by coal-burning power plants—a process that has largely proved to be an ineffective and cost-prohibitive folly.

Futures Forum: Climate change: "The world becomes increasingly volatile ...

That is: there is the promise of 'carbon capture':
Futures Forum: Climate change: Will Carbon Capture and Storage be the techno-fix to 'unlock' unburnable fossil fuels?

This evening's Costing the Earth on Radio 4 looked at the issues - and the technologies:

Putting the Fizz Back into Planet Earth

Costing the Earth

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Can we find a use for all that pesky climate-changing carbon dioxide? If we can turn excess CO2 into something useful we might just be able to slow down the rate of global warming. It's a dream shared by lots of scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs.

At the ACI Carbon Utilisation conference in Lyon, Tom meets the Germans turning CO2 into a fuel and the French researchers aiming to mimic nature's photosynthesis process. In Oxford he talks to a company making fertiliser from waste and a chemist creating innovative plastics whilst in Avonmouth he sees CO2 transformed into concrete blocks that are already being used in house building around the country.

BBC Radio 4 - Costing the Earth, Putting the Fizz Back into Planet Earth
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