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How Thermal Power Plants can help Green the World

Global Warming due to the effect of greenhouse gases such as those released by thermal power plants is increasingly becoming a matter of serious concern for environmentalists. Another area of serious concern to environmentalists is the destruction of forests and green cover on our planet. Vast tracts of our planet are covered with desert like conditions and these tracts are increasing. A novel solution exists that can solve both these problems simultaneously. Just as animals and humans breathe oxygen releasing carbon dioxide as waste (A green house gas), trees and plants breathe in carbon dioxide releasing oxygen. Thermal power plants too release copious amounts of carbon dioxide by burning fossil fuels. IF a regulation existed (Lets call it the GREEN STEAM PROTOCOL or GSP for short) that required every operating power plant to green sufficient areas of our planet to create a green cover sufficient to absorb the carbon dioxide released by them during their lifetime the problem ca