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Scotland aims to capture carbon future

Like all big coal-fired power plants, the 2400-megawatt-capacity Longannet station in Fife is filthy.

Yet the addition of a special device to capture the carbon dioxide produced by the coal and then store it in deep geologic formations in the North Sea could change everything – not just here, but around the world.