Is capturing carbon directly from power plants possible? And is there any useful applications for the captured carbon?

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I feel like the only way electric cars can be truly “environment friendly” is if the carbon produced is captured at the plants.

Not sure if it’s at all possible, though.

In: Engineering

Answer 1

Yes it’s possible. Port of Rotterdam is working on a project called Porthos, where they intend to capture emissions from shell, exxonmobil and the likes and store those indefinitely in empty gas fields along the coast.

Finding an alternative use for the emissions, as other commenters explained, is impractical.