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Letter: Gypsum plus carbon

Published 15 December 2004

From Carol Stevenson

Having read with interest the article on creating “new land” by treating limestone with sulphuric acid to convert it to gypsum (20 November, p 38), I wonder if any of the proposed projects have taken into account the carbon tax that will be attracted by all the carbon dioxide produced.

London, UK

Issue no. 2478 published 18 December 2004

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