0 Emmission Natural Gas

Recently MIT engineers have been trying to figure out a way to take out CO2 emissions from natural gas plants.  “Because we’re keeping the nitrogen out of there, it’s very, very easy to take the CO2 out,” said MIT engineer Tom Adams, co-author of a paper in the Journal of Power Sources on the new plant design. The impact of this could be enourmous for the plants themselves because they would avoid the CO2 emission tax.

The other exiting part about this article is that, if and when they are able to capture the CO2, they engineers are working on making fuel cells out of the emiissions. In the future fuel cell power plants such as these could have a mojor impact on our quest for low carbon fuel.

Although some scientists think that the projections coming from MIT are unrealistic, the fact is that "The group has been steadily progressing towards building fuel-cell power plants. Right now, solid oxide fuel cells like the ones described by Adams are nearing commercialization by Siemens, but at the kilowatt scale, not the megawatt scale. But Adams believes megawatt prototypes could be operational by 2012."
These types of intiatives and projects couldnt come at a better time. The emission standards that we must meet in order to cap global warming are coming up fast and these timetables are exiting because they are aiming for 2012. Your can catch the rest of the article here http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/solid-oxide-fuel-cells/ .