Carbon Aplenty
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Carbon Aplenty
Exhaust plumes spew from cooling towers at a coal-fired power station in Germany. At a recent symposium sponsored by the American Chemical Society, chemists from around the world presented schemes to put CO2 to use making products normally derived from oil. These approaches could take a bite out of power plant emissions that would normally go into the atmosphere.

 
 
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