A Chinese company is transforming emissions from a coal-fired power plant into fertilizer. This innovative technology could simultaneously lower carbon capture costs and make food production cheaper.

A Chinese company is turning the emissions from a coal-fired power plant into fertiliser, expanding the application of a technology that could make both carbon capture and food cheaper. A report published on Monday by China Electric Power News cited a person involved in the project as saying that “flue gas enters from one end of the pipe, and fertiliser comes out from the other end”. China Electric Power News is a newspaper under the National Development and Reform Commission, China’s top...