Australian coal plant emissions set to spawn algae biofuels

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Macquarie Generation signs deal with Algae.Tec to use waste CO2 from Bayswater plant to grow algae for transport fuel

Australia's largest power company is to use captured carbon emissions from one of its coal plants to help grow algae that can then be processed into clean transport fuel. Macquarie Generation, which...

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