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[ultravioletdivine]

Sorry, brycedub. YOU seem to be missing the point that we already have TRULY clean methods of generating power - like WIND. We don't have to invest anything to make wind "cleaner", it already is. COAL is DIRTY no matter what. You still have to BURN it and do SOMEthing with the waste products. We can invest the same amount of money that we would have to on coal to "make it cleaner" instead on helix wind turbines and have power NOW.

[meglet1roo]

It's horrifying to think that we're still living off of coal technology - and it cannot improve - coal is carbon, no matter how we process it we'll be throwing off the carbon cycle and most likely adding more CO2 to our already overpacked atmosphere. It's true, there is no clean coal - I'd like to believe America's still innovative and determined enough to clean up our act and invest in wind power.

[frederickus]

FYI, I know former uranium miners in Colorado and Utah, and the energy industry told them it was safe too! In Monticello, Utah, a large portion of the population now has cancer due to energy industry lies about uranium mining and milling!

[frederickus]

I suggest that you find a job where you won't get black lung!

[Naxwell]

Fuck this naysaying bullshit.

[tooosweeet]

I keep a lovely lump of coal in my living room. It's quite clean actually. Don't believe what you hear :O. diamonds come from coal, are diamonds dirty? [-x No.

[brycedub]

No, I totally understand that wind is clean. Truly clean. But reliable? No. Able to supply baseload power? No. So what do we do? We have to increase the efficiency and environmental safety of the fuel sources that already keep us going and will keep us going. Otherwise our society as we know it will be unsustainable.

[brycedub]

So I suppose the question is this: does the reality campaign want CCS to succeed or not? It's pretty simple really. You must agree renewables can't replace coal's generating capacity in the next 20-30 years, so the question becomes whether the reality campaign wants to continue discouraging the development of technologies that will make current electricity sources cleaner or just be naysayers who inhibit progress on any front but their own?

[don3com]

"Clean Coal" is the linguistic equivalent of "Dry Water" or "Honest Politicians" or "Ethical Corporations" or "Peaceful Empires" or in justinkk's case, "Informed Citizen" or "Smart Moron"

[Kathi10123]

"It smells good too." :)

Coal = money and jobs

ALSO

Coal = Bad

Of course you can argue that alternative power will create jobs too.

My opinion is that we should start using alternative resources b/c they are RENEWABLE and clean ALREADY without having to make it CLEANER (like coal)

That's why we're stuck and arguing here with Youtube comments. :)

[sixde6rees]

Just because our economy currently relies on coal doesn't make it right.

No one is proposing to shut down the coal industry by Thursday night.

Governments need to plan for economic diversification and a just transition to sustainable economies. It is possible. It is necessary.

[sixde6rees]

brycedub,

Pilot plants doing 'bits' of CCS exist (Schwarze Pumpe in Germany stores the CO2 temporarily in cylinders).

To my knowledge no one is expecting commercial coal power with CCS to exist anywhere in the world before 2020, after that fast roll-out looks unfeasible.

CCS must overcome challenges including suitable storage sites within 100km of power stations, cost, proof of no leakage.

The Reality campaign, highlights the 'unreality' of the the Americas Power campaign.