{"id":45261,"date":"2014-07-23T17:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nyt_corralling_carbon_before_it_belches_from_stack\/"},"modified":"2014-07-23T17:00:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T17:00:40","slug":"nyt_corralling_carbon_before_it_belches_from_stack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45261","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Corralling Carbon Before It Belches From Stack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So much soot belched from the old power plant here that Mike Zeleny would personally warn the neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the wind was blowing in a certain direction,\u201d\u009d Mr. Zeleny said, \u201cwe\u2019d call Mrs. Robinson down the street and tell her not to put out her laundry.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>That coal plant is long gone, replaced by a much larger and cleaner one along the vast Saskatchewan prairie. Sooty shirts and socks are a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<p>But as with even the most modern coal plants, its smokestacks still emit enormous amounts of carbon dioxide, the invisible heat-trapping gas that is the main contributor to global warming. So this fall, a gleaming new maze of pipes and tanks \u201d\u201d topped with what looks like the Tin Man\u2019s hat \u201d\u201d will suck up 90 percent of the carbon dioxide from one of the boilers so it can be shipped out for burial, deep underground.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/22\/science\/corralling-carbon-before-it-belches-from-stack.html?_r=0\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So much soot belched from the old power plant here that Mike Zeleny would personally warn the neighbors. \u201cIf the wind was blowing in a certain direction,\u201d\u009d Mr. Zeleny said, \u201cwe\u2019d call Mrs. Robinson down the street and tell her<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45261\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,207,582,589,149,140,168,119,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-canada","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-energy-natural-resources","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-globalization","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}