Clean Coal Does NOT Exist

Some lobbyist would tell you that “clean coal” is just as good as burning Natural Gas in electrical generating stations. They may talk of test sites and government support.  In virtually all cases, the companies involved in “clean coal” have given up on these unproven technologies.

To quote Eric Redman on the use of pulverized-coal plants, a lawyer who represents several companies working on technologies to “gasify” coal, from Fred Krupp’s recent book, EARTH: THE SEQUEL, “It’s almost immoral. It’s like telling someone you can keep smoking because we might come up with a cure for cancer.”

 China makes 80% of it’s electricity from coal and is adding a new 500-megawatt plant every four days.

USA and the developed countries need to lead the way, with massive greening of the electrical grid. China, as in the past, will follow suit once it is evident that coal stations will not be tolerated.

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