Does carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology mean that cleaner coal exists and is a viable low-carbon fuel?
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology promises to remove dangerous greenhouse gas emissions from the coal power generation process before it gets into the atmosphere. As such it has been presented as a sort of fossil-fuel Holy Grail. The trouble with CCS is that no-one knows when – if ever – it will be commercially available. At the moment there are only a few small scale demonstration plants.
