Fossil fuel burniing gives off a lot of unwanted CO2 emissions. Why not harness it to turn turbines of its own rather than dumping it into the atmosphere?

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Fossil fuel burniing gives off a lot of unwanted CO2 emissions. Why not harness it to turn turbines of its own rather than dumping it into the atmosphere?

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It would still be pumped into the atmosphere. That stuff doesn’t go away when you put it through a turbine. It also isn’t released at a high enough pressure to run a turbine with any significant output.