A Future For Clean Coal?

A new ad promises an environmentally friendly method of extracting energy from coal through the process of gasification. But, as Wyatt Andrews reports, there still may be cause for concern.

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[UCSDEngineerDoctor]

@siucbasser You should keep that money, to pay for your health insurance, rather than subsidizing UNIONs bosses 6 figure salaries & using those dues to elect more democrats so they can pass more laws, permits, & restrictions so that you can not work, basically extorting money from you so you can't do business, & say its for the environment but in reality they take that money & piss it away on red tape, UNION bureaucracy, & more cubicle hamster secretary DMV city workers that watch you drown.

[siucbasser]

@UCSDEngineerDoctor

bah unions...

us miners already give enough of our paychecks that we work hard for to taxes, let alone have to pay more of it to unions.

[BadGasGoodWind]

@zidanetribal00042 You're wrong. US oil supplies peaked in the 1970's. The fact of the matter is that we can't go on burning the stuff(or coal & natural gas) even if it all is plentiful & abundant. The amount of air & water pollution it produces has become catastrophic, nature is no longer able to mitigate & absorb the poisons emitted. Oil is actually more valuable & worth more to humankind if solely used as a manufacturing ingredient, NOT as fuel. We are wasting it (and ourselves) by burning it

[UCSDEngineerDoctor]

CLEAN COAL? That is an oxymoron. OBAMA is a liar, crook, & a fraud. Coal is CLEAN energy? OBAMA wants to back the COAL UNIONs. OBAMA says he is for clean energy, but it is just a bunch of B/S. It means more dues for his UNION cronies. Same with CAP/TRADE, raise your taxes, & energy prices saying you take that money for windmills, BULLSHIT! All going to state deficits to pay off the UNIONs outrageous salaries & pensions!

[roywesthouston]

So where do you put the millions of tons of toxic sludge-ooops we take it 3 miles out and dump it on top of the coral reef. You say that we only killed 98$ Idiots.

[roywesthouston]

billions of tons of toxic sludge being pumped into the air and water. Our planet is going into convulsions. These cowards think because trhey buy off politicians and pervert the democratic process that we have to live with the dangers brought about by pumping billions of tons of toxic sludge into our air and water. What-did you really think that the ash and toxic garbage actually turns into pixi dust and disappears? No, not at all.

[WKHalford]

TECO's coal gasification plant (Polk Power Station) is 5 miles from my house in Florida (I just moved from there to New Mexico).

I used to work for TECO, although not at Polk Power Station.

One thing the video says that is misleading is when they say carbon sequestration isn't being done on any coal-fired power plants. However, it isn't being done on ANY power plants, including oil and natural gas fired power plants.

It's amazing how they can word a news report so that it's misleading.

[bogusnachos]

Coal will never be clean. We can rid ourselve of all of our coal plants by replacing them with Liquid Fluoride Thoriums Reactors (LFTR) an improved form of nuclear energy. A LFTR replacing the coal plant would fit in the parking lot of any coal plant in the US. We could replace all of our coal with LFTRs generating electriciy at less then 3 cents a kilowatt hour and save trillions of dollars in the process.

[canucanoe2861]

@canucanoe2861 Did you ever hear of residential and commercial solar panels installed on rooftops? If most bldgs. had solar panels, desert installations would be there to supplement the panels on rooftops. This is not an overnight solution. Windfarms are often located offshore so there is no loss of land use. The offshore installations create artificial reefs which are good for marine nurseries. This will work as part of a long term strategy to get off of fossil fuels whose sources are finite.

[Allante715]

@canucanoe2861

Do you have an idea how much, say, a 500MW solar plant takes in terms of acrage? You would need the area greater then the state of Arizona just to displace all the Coal plants in the United States. But, Coal plants run 24/7 at close to their installed capacity. Solar does not, not even close. So all that land, and you still haven't matched coal for reliable, non-intermittent power. Wind is the same way. Requires WAY too much land for unreliable power.