A new study from MIT says that if the US and China cannot control and reduce carbon dioxide emissions from coal-burning plants, efforts at cutting back on global warming may be a failure. The AP got an early version of the document produced by the university.
The study goes a long way toward implying that China does not have the capacity to develop the technology over the next few years but the US does.
The authors of the report write “Such technology, if shown to work in U.S. plants, could get China to reduce greenhouse gases from its rapidly growing network of coal burning power plants.”
The US may be able to create an important new export to China–the technology to help the “greening” of the world’s most populous country and the earth’s most significant polluter.
It is hard to estimate what the US might get for advanced emissions control products, but with the hundreds of coal plants in China, it is bound to be a bundle.
Douglas A. McIntyre
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