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A GROUP Of Scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboragtory In the us have come up with a unique strategy to Pee the carbon dim (Cod gas emans from fuel-burning plants - report responsible for the global war" phenomenon - harmless. Atcordin Klaus S Lackner, the chief physich the laboratory, it should be.possible to separate C02 gas from the smoke of the fossil fuel burning plants. and then mixing it with certain minerals such as magnesium oxide or calcium oxide.
The carbon in the gas would permanently bind with the minerals keeping it out of the atmosphere. Lackner estimates it would cost about 5 cents to soak tip the carbon dioxide the production of a single hour of electricity including everything from construction of treatment to mining and crushing the mixed oil That is equal to the roughly 5 cents kilowatt-hour to produce the electricity in the first place. "But I view this as an insurance policy", declares Lackray It is certainly a small price to pay when the polar ice sheets are at stay he contends.