Amid U.S.-China Energy Tension, "Clean Coal" Spurs Teamwork

This fun National Geographic article explains some of China’s CCS research advantages, such as large budgets and an efficient "engineering and science machine," as well as the growing competition between US and Chinese CCS methods. For example, the Huaneng gasifier (outside Shanghai) illustrates some improvements over US models by consuming less water, gasifying inputs twice, and separating out purer CO2. On the bright side, US and Chinese CCS researchers are collaborating, and hopefully there will be cross-fertilization of CCS research.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2012/12/120213-us-china-teamwork-on-clean-coal/

-Khalial