Coal: Keeping Electricity Affordable

Fred Shelton is an energy efficiency consultant in St. Louis. He's also a husband and father of five, so he knows how important affordable energy is to families across America. For more visit http://www.americaspower.org/real-people/fred

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[circlejosh]

coal is the answer? seems a little bakcwards..

[balancedenergy]

Circlejosh: We rely on coal today and we're going to rely on it for the foreseeable future. By investing in clean coal technology, we can make the coal we use to produce electricity even cleaner.

[courage949]

U hv great compassion for people however this vid is unfortunately shortsited, coal is not feasible without exasperating our climate crisis. We must empower ourselvesas one n force an energy change that is sustainable.

[balancedenergy]

Courage949: That's why it's so important for the government to invest in the technologies to make coal even cleaner. Some carbon capture and storage demonstration projects have been able to cut CO2 emissions by up to 95 percent. We need to deploy that technology on a commercial scale.

[artmilenio1]

me to I admire and people like you inspire me to do great thing for life green world

[oscarrayallen]

After watching your video, I admire your work so much!