Reuters: A carbon capture boom is unlikely near term in China, the world’s top greenhouse gas polluter, because its coal-burning plants are inefficient, said global warming activist Al Gore. “I’m not saying it’s technologically impossible, but a lot of the coal plants in China are old technology. They are thermally inefficient … and they have to use a lot of energy to capture and store the CO2,” former U.S. Vice President Gore told a panel at the Cornell Global Forum on Sustainable …