New
Scientist: “Carbon dioxide may be bad for the
climate, but it's good for the roses,” writes
New Scientist’s Phil McKenna. Dutch greenhouses
have, according to McKenna, been successful in recycling
captured CO
2. They have been piping it in from nearby
industries, such as oil refineries; the CO
2 has helped the plants grow up to 30% faster than
normal. Yet
FutureGen, the
US flagship effort at carbon capture and sequestration, has
faced numerous challenges, most recently the
Department
of Energy’s decision not to finance construction of a
new plant but to contribute $737 million to remake an old one
instead.
