Dirty Business (Trailer)

In the digital age, half our electricity still comes from coal. DIRTY BUSINESS: "Clean Coal" and the Battle for Our Energy Future is a documentary that reveals the true social and environmental costs of coal power and tells the stories of innovators who are pointing the way to an alternative energy future. Guided by Rolling Stone reporter Jeff Goodell, the film examines what it means to remain dependent on a 19th century technology that is the largest single source of greenhouse gases. Can coal really be made 'clean'? Can renewables and efficiency be produced
on a scale large enough replace coal? The film seeks answers in a series of stories shot in China, Saskatchewan, Kansas, West Virginia, Nevada and New York.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• clean
• coal
• mountaintop
• removal
• solar
• power
• wind
• greenhouse
• gas

[ph7ryan]

@qcages You realize how much energy goes into producing the materials for solar panels correct? No? How about the mechanical efficiency of a windmill? No? Well watt per dollar its not worth it. Or was it nuclear power you were referring to? Are you aware that the nuclear waste needs to be isolated and is deemed radioactive and dangerous for upwards of 10,000 years? There's pros and cons to every form of energy. If we consume as much as we do, you are going to have to just deal with the cons.

[exadverso]

Coal not only creates problems when it is burned. Open cast coal mining in Britain has been found to effect people who live downwind of these mines. Children are suffering high rates of the incidence of asthma and other respiratory illnesses. Studies have been carried out over the past ten years in Britain which have shown this to be a real public health issue. If you require proof of this, do a keyword search for Dr Dick Van Steenis, asthma and open cast coal mining,

[qcages]

@jmcnallyua The only reason you or anyone else say"YES TO COAL"is because the industry already exists and there are jobs it in.If that industry was transformed into industry with a more economical and safer source, those jobs would still exist. Everything about coal is bad accept the fact that the industry employs people.We have to get out energy from somewhere, and if it's not coal, another industry with employees will produce it. Stop being a scaredy-cat and think about how F-ed up coal is.

[jmcnallyua]

YES TO COAL