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Turning black industries green with carbon capture

Sinopec refinery in Jiangxi: The oil company wants to capture CO2 and store it away.
If the global community wants to achieve its climate targets, carbon dioxide that has already been generated must also be recaptured. However, the technology for this is still expensive. China is not deterred by this and is planning huge plants to capture CO2.
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Nico Beckert
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It is a dream of many managers working on a better environmental balance: Simply separating the CO2 from the other exhaust gases at the end of the production process and disposing of it. It would be much easier to achieve the climate targets that way. This would require a technology that effectively separates CO2 from other gases. Companies are not the only ones who would find this option a good fit. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), part of the emissions must be filtered out of the atmosphere in order to limit global warming to 1.5 to 2 degrees.

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