Climate policy needs negative carbon-dioxide emissions
The world is not remotely ready to provide them
ON ONE SIDE of a utility road at the edge of Drax power station in Yorkshire sits a vast pile of deep black coal. On the other side, trains loaded to the brim with compressed wood pellets. “The old and the new,” says a worker.
This article appeared in the Briefing section of the print edition under the headline “The chronic complexity of carbon capture”
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