Global Warming & The Future of Coal - High Tech New Plants

Ever-rising industrial and consumer demand for more power in tandem with cheap and abundant coal reserves across the globe are expected to result in the construction of new coal-fired power plants producing 1,400 gigawatts of electricity by 2030, according to the International Energy Agency. In the absence of emission controls, these new plants will increase worldwide annual emissions of carbon dioxide by approximately 7.6 billion metric tons by 2030. These emissions would equal roughly 50 percent of all fossil fuel emissions over the past 250 years.

Read the new Center for American Progress report at http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/05/coal_report.html

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[raistlin1234567]

I wonder if they're being sponsored by the coal industry. Natural gas has been used to provide the heat to liquify/gasify coal. As it becomes more expensive this process will be harder to justify on an economic basis.

Also it pays to remember that CO2 is heavier than air so will hug the ground, suffocating all those unfortunates living close by. Hope none of you live near any salt caverns...