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.

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The province of Saskatchewan in Canada is experimenting with a carbon capture and storage project at the Boundary Dam power plant (despite the name it’s actually a coal-fired power plant)

It has had middling success so far, and is subject to a hefty amount of criticism- mostly because the CO2 generated is simply being used to frack a nearby oil field and help extract more fossil fuels

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_Dam_Power_Station?wprov=sfti1#Carbon_capture_and_storage_demonstration_project

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