Clean Coal: This Is Reality

Actually, sh*t is much cleaner than coal. Maneur! Compost! Haha.

Sorry, but coal doesn't just affect the local area. Air has no borders, and the increasing CO2 affects everyone, albeit some regions are affect more greatly.

Also, impacts aren't always felt immediately, actually practically never. Climate isn't like the weather. It's not instantaneous. It is trends and patterns that spread over decades, not a single year or whatnot.

I would talk to someone who lives in the Powder River Basin, and they will tell you about the impact on the land.

CO? I thought we were talking about CO2 Sorry, but making a fire isn't the same thing as industries burning coal as much as we do.

That blackwater (essentially coal tailings) are impounded on artificial dams since companies don't have a legal obligation to treat them, and treating them would make coal power generation a lot more expensive (which is why energy companies lobby against regulation forcing them to do it). An example of the consequences of that policy is the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill, back in December 2008. CO2 sequestration would also be expensive. Coal can be either cheap OR clean.

Alright now I have to ask a question: What's the difference between a mine producing "black water" and natural erosion through a coal bed releasing EVERYTHING into the stream?

Natural erosion rarely causes a tidal wave of destruction when left unchecked, erosion doesn't systematically separate the most toxic elements for stockpiling (the coal industry does, to reduce atmospheric emissions), erosion also releases those substances at a much slower rate, at relatively non-toxic levels, allowing natural dilution and biological processes to fix the chemicals to the ground. The levels found at tailings are deadly to most lifeforms except a few extremophillic bacteria.

I'll go back to my coal-mine-next-to-a-national-p ark statement. the mine is virtually INVISIBLE even down hill. Real-world scenarios trump your propagandist facts. and all a coal mine does is dig the coal out of the hillside, dump the waste rock overburden, and ship it out. Coal is not further processed at the mine itself. there is no "separation of toxic elements for stockpiling"...it's putting naturally-formed coal into a pile to be sold. No chemical operations are done on it. learn something.

So far I've never heard of clean coal technology being put to use, if it was, I think the coal companies would be going a lot more advertising about it. I think the fact that it isn't advertised hints towards the technology being propaganda.

Search for "A Future For Clean Coal?" and decide who you want to believe.

I agree. How about no coal. Why not use truly clean energy like solar, wind, and geothermal? I bet they spend more on advertising "clean coal" than actual research. And furthermore, I love how they think that burrying the CO2 they are able to capture underneath the earth will solve the problem.