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George Bush announced a $2 billion clean-coal initiative in 2002, and the 2005 Energy Policy Act, notorious for its pork content, included $1.6 billion-worth of subsidies for coal gasification.According to the International Energy Agency, around 15 power plants with CCS are being planned and another seven CCS projects are on the drawing board.

The distinct parts of this process, known as carbon capture and storage (CCS), are already in operation.

If the world is to continue burning fossil fuels while avoiding the consequences, then it will need a lot of CCS.

It is called carbon capture and storage (CCS), or carbon sequestration, and entails hoovering up carbon dioxide from the smokestacks of power plants and other big industrial facilities and storing it safely underground, where it will have no effect on the atmosphere.

That is a bureaucratic way of admitting that the technology needed to limit emissions, by extracting carbon dioxide from power plants' smokestacks and storing it underground, is not yet commercially viable.The problem is that carbon capture and storage (CCS), as the technology is known, is not likely to be commercially viable in ten years' time either.

With the use of coal worldwide expected to double by 2030, for example, carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies will be crucial.

The International Energy Agency IEAA) reckons the world will need over 200 power plants equipped with CCS by 2030 to limit the rise in average global temperatures to about 3°C a bigger increase than many scientists would like.Politicians have duly lined up behind the idea.

"Even if it only told the time, Apple is likely to sell millions of them with the first launch," said Ben Wood, head of research at analysts CCS Insight.

Fewer than 3m smartwatches were sold in 2014, according to data from research firm CCS Insight, but 2015 is expected to see wearable technology sales boom to 75m with an estimated 36m smartwatches sold by the end of the year.

According to George Jijiashvili, wearables analyst for CCS Insight, anything from a device to make a normal watch "smart" to wireless earbuds that track heart rate, activity and play music, all without a smartphone, are pitching for funding.

"Smartwatches are turning out to be the hottest news coming out of the Baselworld luxury goods show," Ben Wood, chief of research at CCS Insight, said.