DOE Researches Removing, Reusing Carbon to Avert Warming

The Energy Department is researching ways to create a “renewable carbon-based” economy to address climate change without fully sidelining fossil fuels, an official said Jan. 9.

Such an economy would continually recycle carbon dioxide once it has been emitted, Ian Rowe, technology manager at the department’s Bioenergy Technologies Office, said at the annual conference of the National Council for Science and the Environment in Washington.

This would involve using plants or other methods of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or capturing it from a power plant and then finding new uses for it. These could ...