thank god, americans understand that clean coal is a hoax. no matter how you burn coal, in the end there will always be a huge amount of green house gases. if you're looking for a resource that is almost inexhaustable, look at the sun (solar energy etc.) or wind. there will always be wind and a sun. these technologies and goods couldn't just be sold in America, but around the globe. a lot of jobs could be created.
Though coal is not clean; I love how everyone who is for green energy thinks that solar and wind power are the two post perfect forms of energy. We can not switch over to green energy with the flick of a switch the logistics needed to switch completely over is staggering.
Hey, nuclear power and coal power advocates and overpopulation deniers:
you ever hear of a "little" law of science called the SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS: THAT CREATING GREATER LOCALIZED ORDER NECESSARILY INCREASES ENTROPY (i.e. MAKES ENERGY LESS USABLE) GLOBALLY?!! Sorry you don't want to face hard reality. That's a symptom of mush-headed idealistic conservatives, bleeding hearts who cry at the SLIGHTEST suggest of modifying their lifestyle. Boo-hoo. Live with it.
Coal company executives need to be executed. Period. They have interfered enough with the War Against Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) for too long.
They want us to believe that every thing should just be a choice.
"If you want to give up meat and not having kids (the 2 most important things one can do to fight AGW), feel free to". I already do. So they think drug dealers selling meth to kids and child molestors should have choice to molest children?
clean coal is a joke. The stuff in my daughters dirty diaper is cleaner than the cleanest coal. It amazes me what these useless cowards will do to protect their black death. I think everyone of them should be serving life in prison for the hundreds of thousands of people they kill every year by pumping billions of tons of toxic sludge into our air and water. I had to take my daughter to the emergency room twice as she began turning blue because of an asthma attack.
= I think everyone of them should be serving life in prison =
Those of us who have already sacrificed, even though we have NOT legally had to, should NOT be forced to suffer the negative ecological and economic consequences of the denialists and fanatic AGW-denier
I find it slanderous for somebody who has probably never had to preform real labor to pass judgment on my profession. You can eat all that they are feeding you, that is your choice, however it is not as cut and dry as you would like it to be. If you want to drive your point home, take some initiative. Walk outside your house and switch the main disconnect on your house, and leave it off. Be a real crusader, don't sit at your keyboard and speculate about all of us hillbilly miners.
Coal Kills: They should be sued for false advertising. Coal is just as deadly as radiation from a nuclear bomb. Coal has been killing Americans for more than a century. Coal should be considered a terrorist weapon not an energy source. Coal contains arsenic, lead, mercury, candium, cyanide, copper, polycyclic hydrocarbons and much more. Most EPA superfunds contain coal waste left to be cleaned up with our tax dollars. The only way to make coal clean is to leave it in the ground forever.
If Coal is NATURAL and We are NATURAL, Coal is Safe in its UNMODIFIED State. Once FIRE is introduced. It Changes Everything.... Think About That but NOT ONLY for Coal...
If people want to know they truth about coal, take a look at my youtube channel. Just click my name. People think we "need" coal, but the human race evolved without it for millions of years. They are ruining my home. Its time we started looking for alternitives. The coal milk is going sour, its time to get off the teet or die.
As a resident of Southern West Virginia, I can testify to the wreck and ruin caused by greedy mining companies, choosing profit over people. Here in Lincoln County, the Hobet mine is poisoning our streams and rivers with selenium. It's causing birth defects and sickness in my neighbors and we're plumb fed up with it.
Our state government rolls over like a litte puppy when the coal barons sa 'boo' and there's zero accountability.
People paint this false image of coal power plants belching black soot and carcinogens. The fact is that scrubbing technology has removed most of the harmful flue gas contents. The so-called green technologies are incapable of providing the power that the world needs. If a wind turbine were built in every suitable place in America it would cover an area of land the size of West Virginia; and could only generate 20% of our energy needs. There are two options for our future: coal and nuclear.
I love coal, i keep a rock of it under my pillow for the coal fairy. It is so clean now you can brush your teeth with it. Experts now agree that consuming coal will actually reduce colon cancer. Sure it powers your home and your car, but coal brings you joy. Coal is also great for those fireside chats. New and improved coal gives the tasty feel of coal soot on your marshmellows and really gets all the kids jumping for joy and wanting more. Coal is cool and just downright tasty.
You people make me sick. This is criminal. How can you push coal!!!!! Are these people so greedy that they can disregard their children's future? Or are they so ignorant that they allow themselves to be used by the greedy people who could care less about their kid's future and ours. Coal should be banned, period. There should be a incremental tax on coal, with all proceeds going to renewable REALLY CLEAN energy sources. Stop lying to people for money! Get a soul!
no combination of renewable resources can produce enough energy, we need coal. most people who want coal out of the picture altogether are not even scientists, they just believe whatever CNN tells them to believe.
@aj19bcx This is a very true statement. Renewable energy can not yet provide enough energy to sustain the world. That doesn't mean we shouldn't do what we can with it. And yes CNN and any other form of news should never back your opinions or beliefs.
It scares me that people think we are not ready to change to strictly renewable energy. The only thing putting a delay on the process is the fact that the people are not properly represented by officials and that some people are just plain ignorant of reality.
Of course we will need more infrastructure to make this work. With new infrastructure comes new jobs. The coal and oil companies can afford it. Don't worry.
Well, as matter of factly, I just tore down my chimney and fireplace last summer. I walled over the hole in the wall . There was no insulation where the fireplace once stood. My room is a lot warmer now. Bricks and masonry crack and cold drafts go through making you want more firewood .. The damper dont shut properly to keep cold drafts out, too. Awful!!
I removed the framing and header around the fireplace and replace with regular studs and put drywall over. it is a wall now. No more fireplace. Of course, I included insulation where there was none before but only bricks with porous mortar that let in cold drafts. Fireplaces is known to allow cold drafts into houses because of cracking mortar as well as bricks or rocks whatever. Impossible to repair , too many unseen cracks.
I found rat droppings behind the indoor brick facade on top of the header. Rats came down the facade from the attic and left zillions of rat droppings .
I feel that firewood is confused by many as an evironmetnally friendly green fuel which it is not. Firewood pollutes like heck! Do you still think firewood is a green energy source or what?? I beg you to please say it is not.. Just forget the carbon sequestration argument between coal and firewood which is full of bull.. Green bull that is...
Simply, both coal and firewood has to go.. I am so amazed that we are still incapable of generating green energy in any great quantities so far. we are so slow on green energy movement. We are kidding ourselves waiting for our government to help us pay for it. Our government can do so much. Sure, our govt gave money to coal and oil & gas and recently stopped which is good. But historically , coal and oil built the reserves mostly by themselves and investors. Green movement need investors.
Coal may be abundant, but it's the dirtiest fuel that we can use, containing the highest level of carbon of any fuel in use today. Hydrogen is even more abundant, making up 75% of the universe. Hydrogen is a clean fuel It produces electricity cleanly, with only water as it's emission. We need strong leadership to move the world away from hydrocarbons and towards pure hydrogen as our energy source. Time is running out.
Sadly, most of the technologies we know for making abundant hydrogen involve coal. nad we're back to square 1.
The correct answer is geothermal energy. There is more than enough for everything and recent advances mean that we can tap into it nearly anywhere, contrary to what you may have heard. Dig deep enough and you will hit hot rocks. Yellowstone alone could power the planet's electrical needs for generations as yet unborn and we may stop the pressure involved in a super eruption too.
Why do you and your kind of people keep forgetting that green energy production will require far more physical infrastrucutre than coal and oil. Coal and oil is more powerful fuels than the Sun per square area of footprint. You dump coal into the boilermakers and it raises a lot of hell in energy as contrary to alternate types which requires vastly more footprint to generate equivalent power . It will mean more mining for metals, glass, whatever.I dont think you are prepared for the kind of ...
...yeah man XD
duffland09 2 months ago
These commercials have more bullshit in them than the worlds largest cattle ranch.
dclefevre 2 months ago
thank god, americans understand that clean coal is a hoax. no matter how you burn coal, in the end there will always be a huge amount of green house gases. if you're looking for a resource that is almost inexhaustable, look at the sun (solar energy etc.) or wind. there will always be wind and a sun. these technologies and goods couldn't just be sold in America, but around the globe. a lot of jobs could be created.
NintendoFanatic123 2 months ago
Coal seems to really work for China. Gotta love the health status of those poorer provinces that just live in its particulates!
BlacklitFloater 3 months ago
bullshit bullshit bullshit bullshit bullshit bullshit bullshit bullshit bullshit... can I say it enough times?
JMCporsche 4 months ago
Though coal is not clean; I love how everyone who is for green energy thinks that solar and wind power are the two post perfect forms of energy. We can not switch over to green energy with the flick of a switch the logistics needed to switch completely over is staggering.
Liddlelegrande 4 months ago
Hey, nuclear power and coal power advocates and overpopulation deniers:
you ever hear of a "little" law of science called the SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS: THAT CREATING GREATER LOCALIZED ORDER NECESSARILY INCREASES ENTROPY (i.e. MAKES ENERGY LESS USABLE) GLOBALLY?!! Sorry you don't want to face hard reality. That's a symptom of mush-headed idealistic conservatives, bleeding hearts who cry at the SLIGHTEST suggest of modifying their lifestyle. Boo-hoo. Live with it.
I have.
mphello 5 months ago
@mphello not sure what your point is - entropy is only a small fraction of the total energy
jamas981 4 months ago
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@jamas981 My point was clear. Your statement
= entropy is only a small fraction of the total energy =
makes no sense. Entropy is not energy. They do not have the same units.
Entropy can be seen as a "measure" of the "total energy not available to do work",
but itself is not energy.
mphello 4 months ago
Coal company executives need to be executed. Period. They have interfered enough with the War Against Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) for too long.
They want us to believe that every thing should just be a choice.
"If you want to give up meat and not having kids (the 2 most important things one can do to fight AGW), feel free to". I already do. So they think drug dealers selling meth to kids and child molestors should have choice to molest children?
Wrong. We need laws banning coal.
mphello 5 months ago
Clean Coal is a LIE, it costs the U.S 500 Billion $ a year is health and environmental damages
raleighl 7 months ago
well then americas power sucks, coal is not clean! and what are you going to do when you run out of it???
porkypinekiwi 8 months ago
clean coal is a joke. The stuff in my daughters dirty diaper is cleaner than the cleanest coal. It amazes me what these useless cowards will do to protect their black death. I think everyone of them should be serving life in prison for the hundreds of thousands of people they kill every year by pumping billions of tons of toxic sludge into our air and water. I had to take my daughter to the emergency room twice as she began turning blue because of an asthma attack.
roywesthouston 9 months ago 4
@roywesthouston Best comment ever! Yes! Worth repeating!
= I think everyone of them should be serving life in prison =
Those of us who have already sacrificed, even though we have NOT legally had to, should NOT be forced to suffer the negative ecological and economic consequences of the denialists and fanatic AGW-denier
anti-solar anti-science anti-windpower cult.
mphello 5 months ago
coal is much cleaner than niggers
ibtl1 9 months ago
@ibtl1 Black women from the U.S. (or any Latin American country) smell 1,000 times better that white French or Russian women, believe me.
danning1 8 months ago
COAL IS POWER
copenhagin1 9 months ago
LOL Clean Coal, now that is funny.
mymojorisin 10 months ago
@hatemowinglawn They aren't really different, isn't it?
Denon333dash888 1 year ago
I find it slanderous for somebody who has probably never had to preform real labor to pass judgment on my profession. You can eat all that they are feeding you, that is your choice, however it is not as cut and dry as you would like it to be. If you want to drive your point home, take some initiative. Walk outside your house and switch the main disconnect on your house, and leave it off. Be a real crusader, don't sit at your keyboard and speculate about all of us hillbilly miners.
jashby27 1 year ago
HAHAHAHAHA was this on SNL?
hotdog2020 1 year ago
@hotdog2020 Sadly, no. I wish it was a joke.
danning1 1 year ago
Coal Kills: They should be sued for false advertising. Coal is just as deadly as radiation from a nuclear bomb. Coal has been killing Americans for more than a century. Coal should be considered a terrorist weapon not an energy source. Coal contains arsenic, lead, mercury, candium, cyanide, copper, polycyclic hydrocarbons and much more. Most EPA superfunds contain coal waste left to be cleaned up with our tax dollars. The only way to make coal clean is to leave it in the ground forever.
Rubenleesims 1 year ago
who are they trying to fool?
Swempa78 1 year ago
AH. haha. HAHA. HAHAHAHA. HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA (pisses pants) ahhaha haha. ..ahha..ha.... Now that's funny.
shelbyfanman 1 year ago
Hey everybody! These morons actually believe the shit that they pedal. Clean coal is like taking a clean shit.
woodyrimshotrealized 1 year ago 3
hah fail
ughzean 1 year ago
If Coal is NATURAL and We are NATURAL, Coal is Safe in its UNMODIFIED State. Once FIRE is introduced. It Changes Everything.... Think About That but NOT ONLY for Coal...
MoonBoy1200 1 year ago
If people want to know they truth about coal, take a look at my youtube channel. Just click my name. People think we "need" coal, but the human race evolved without it for millions of years. They are ruining my home. Its time we started looking for alternitives. The coal milk is going sour, its time to get off the teet or die.
cardinalsboi22 1 year ago 2
As a resident of Southern West Virginia, I can testify to the wreck and ruin caused by greedy mining companies, choosing profit over people. Here in Lincoln County, the Hobet mine is poisoning our streams and rivers with selenium. It's causing birth defects and sickness in my neighbors and we're plumb fed up with it.
Our state government rolls over like a litte puppy when the coal barons sa 'boo' and there's zero accountability.
ChinaMarine556 2 years ago 4
People paint this false image of coal power plants belching black soot and carcinogens. The fact is that scrubbing technology has removed most of the harmful flue gas contents. The so-called green technologies are incapable of providing the power that the world needs. If a wind turbine were built in every suitable place in America it would cover an area of land the size of West Virginia; and could only generate 20% of our energy needs. There are two options for our future: coal and nuclear.
Think41ce 2 years ago
I love coal, i keep a rock of it under my pillow for the coal fairy. It is so clean now you can brush your teeth with it. Experts now agree that consuming coal will actually reduce colon cancer. Sure it powers your home and your car, but coal brings you joy. Coal is also great for those fireside chats. New and improved coal gives the tasty feel of coal soot on your marshmellows and really gets all the kids jumping for joy and wanting more. Coal is cool and just downright tasty.
ToxicBrainSyndrome 2 years ago 21
You people make me sick. This is criminal. How can you push coal!!!!! Are these people so greedy that they can disregard their children's future? Or are they so ignorant that they allow themselves to be used by the greedy people who could care less about their kid's future and ours. Coal should be banned, period. There should be a incremental tax on coal, with all proceeds going to renewable REALLY CLEAN energy sources. Stop lying to people for money! Get a soul!
rodolfoi2004 2 years ago 2
no combination of renewable resources can produce enough energy, we need coal. most people who want coal out of the picture altogether are not even scientists, they just believe whatever CNN tells them to believe.
aj19bcx 2 years ago
@aj19bcx This is a very true statement. Renewable energy can not yet provide enough energy to sustain the world. That doesn't mean we shouldn't do what we can with it. And yes CNN and any other form of news should never back your opinions or beliefs.
k3yb0ardn1nja2 2 years ago 2
@k3yb0ardn1nja2 instead of brainwashing people to think coal is good why not have them invest in creating new renewable energy sources
maybachlover15 1 year ago
@maybachlover15 I agree with you
k3yb0ardn1nja2 1 year ago
Take all the subsidies that Coal and Oil get and build schools in Coal States. Education is the key to the future of American Security not Coal.
Nikkosis27 2 years ago
It scares me that people think we are not ready to change to strictly renewable energy. The only thing putting a delay on the process is the fact that the people are not properly represented by officials and that some people are just plain ignorant of reality.
Of course we will need more infrastructure to make this work. With new infrastructure comes new jobs. The coal and oil companies can afford it. Don't worry.
k3yb0ardn1nja 2 years ago 3
What about firewood? Clean?
junkyardnut 2 years ago
No, firewood produces more smoke and produces a lot less power than coal. Compared to firewood coal is clean... and coal isn't clean.
formless777 2 years ago
Well, as matter of factly, I just tore down my chimney and fireplace last summer. I walled over the hole in the wall . There was no insulation where the fireplace once stood. My room is a lot warmer now. Bricks and masonry crack and cold drafts go through making you want more firewood .. The damper dont shut properly to keep cold drafts out, too. Awful!!
junkyardnut 2 years ago
Interesting point junkyardnut. What did you seal up the fireplace with btw ?
formless777 2 years ago
I removed the framing and header around the fireplace and replace with regular studs and put drywall over. it is a wall now. No more fireplace. Of course, I included insulation where there was none before but only bricks with porous mortar that let in cold drafts. Fireplaces is known to allow cold drafts into houses because of cracking mortar as well as bricks or rocks whatever. Impossible to repair , too many unseen cracks.
junkyardnut 2 years ago
I found rat droppings behind the indoor brick facade on top of the header. Rats came down the facade from the attic and left zillions of rat droppings .
junkyardnut 2 years ago
I feel that firewood is confused by many as an evironmetnally friendly green fuel which it is not. Firewood pollutes like heck! Do you still think firewood is a green energy source or what?? I beg you to please say it is not.. Just forget the carbon sequestration argument between coal and firewood which is full of bull.. Green bull that is...
junkyardnut 2 years ago
Simply, both coal and firewood has to go.. I am so amazed that we are still incapable of generating green energy in any great quantities so far. we are so slow on green energy movement. We are kidding ourselves waiting for our government to help us pay for it. Our government can do so much. Sure, our govt gave money to coal and oil & gas and recently stopped which is good. But historically , coal and oil built the reserves mostly by themselves and investors. Green movement need investors.
junkyardnut 2 years ago
perhaps if coal powers our way of life, then it's seriously outdated...
WhamBamThankYouMadam 2 years ago
No matter how clean they make it, solar and wind will always be cleaner. That's where we should be putting our efforts.
ctdbach 2 years ago 2
Coal may be abundant, but it's the dirtiest fuel that we can use, containing the highest level of carbon of any fuel in use today. Hydrogen is even more abundant, making up 75% of the universe. Hydrogen is a clean fuel It produces electricity cleanly, with only water as it's emission. We need strong leadership to move the world away from hydrocarbons and towards pure hydrogen as our energy source. Time is running out.
RenneRenifer 2 years ago
Sadly, most of the technologies we know for making abundant hydrogen involve coal. nad we're back to square 1.
The correct answer is geothermal energy. There is more than enough for everything and recent advances mean that we can tap into it nearly anywhere, contrary to what you may have heard. Dig deep enough and you will hit hot rocks. Yellowstone alone could power the planet's electrical needs for generations as yet unborn and we may stop the pressure involved in a super eruption too.
formless777 2 years ago
Why do you and your kind of people keep forgetting that green energy production will require far more physical infrastrucutre than coal and oil. Coal and oil is more powerful fuels than the Sun per square area of footprint. You dump coal into the boilermakers and it raises a lot of hell in energy as contrary to alternate types which requires vastly more footprint to generate equivalent power . It will mean more mining for metals, glass, whatever.I dont think you are prepared for the kind of ...
junkyardnut 2 years ago
scenario to come...
junkyardnut 2 years ago
Yeah come on, lets think of the real clean energy source...Mud!
Maday65 3 years ago
There is no clean coal, is like saying that the world is fine, and we have nothing to fear...
Crocodileofdoom 3 years ago 2
Clean coal is an oxymoron
gordo783 3 years ago 49
@gordo783 says the person using a computer that is probably powered by coal...
MegaMusicAddicted 2 months ago
@MegaMusicAddicted So what?
logos2600 2 months ago
@gordo783 You're right on that. Clean coal is not totally clean, but it is cleaner than regular coal.
kagome122885 1 month ago
@kagome122885 That's like saying cars today do not pollute because they are more efficient then engines of 100years ago.
ii2bcnii 1 month ago