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  Coal can not be clean

  Since Coal on the other hand, cannot be both clean and cheap at the same time.

  Sorry to break it to you, but coal can never be clean... period.

  You can scrub out the impurities so that they are not included in the combustion process.  However you are left with a toxic sludge of all those impurities.  Law of conservation of matter: "matter cannot be created/destroyed, although it may be rearranged".  So rather than have those toxins locked in coal harmlessly trapped below the surface you can have it in the air or as a sludge to deal with.

  As for carbon capture... oh boy, where to begin.  Where are you going to put all this compressed carbon dioxide you capture?  Sink barrels to the bottom of the sea?  How long will it be trapped?  Will those barrels leak eventually?  Will that contribute to ocean acidification?  Carbon capture is not a SUSTAINABLE solution.  At best it is a stop gap until we further develop RENEWABLE energy production to the point it can fill our needs.  To devote obscene financial resources and pin the worlds hopes on carbon capture technology is utter stupidity.  Your just entrenching fossil fuels and ultimately the issue is not solved.On Expensive coal + hydrogen = ? posted 1 year, 12 months ago 5 Responses

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  Coal and Corn

  Great, more pandering to the special interest that are trying to re brand two very bad forms of energy (coal and ethanol) as green.  COAL CAN NOT BE CLEAN PEOPLE!

  http://ecosapien.blogspot.com/2007/10/clean-coal-propagan ...
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  Neither Coal nor Ethanol are clean

  Of course the Queen of Pandering includes ethanol and "clean coal" in her plan, despite neither being green energy.  But who cares as long as corn farmers in the mid-west and coal miners in Kentucky and West Virginia are happy.  What a joke...On The full text of Clinton's plan posted 2 years ago 18 Responses