<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Coal industry downplays prospects for CCS as it seeks more handouts in Senate climate bill]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Tasermons Partner http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-17-coal-industry-downplays-ccs-prospects-senate/ Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:19:03 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-17-coal-industry-downplays-ccs-prospects-senate/1 Well to be fair, they should downplay CCS...cause it ain't happenin'! * rolls eyes *

]]> Well to be fair, they should downplay CCS...cause it ain't happenin'! * rolls eyes *

]]> Comment #2 by tmullins http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-17-coal-industry-downplays-ccs-prospects-senate/ Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:35:34 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-17-coal-industry-downplays-ccs-prospects-senate/2 See the real "clean coal" prosperity in Wise County, Virginia.  Thanks Congressman Boucher.  We are being bombed, blasted and bulldozed right into 3rd world America.  http://www.wisecountyissues.com/?p=138  Peoples homes and communities are turning into mountaintop removal mining operations, that's wrong !

]]> See the real "clean coal" prosperity in Wise County, Virginia.  Thanks Congressman Boucher.  We are being bombed, blasted and bulldozed right into 3rd world America.  http://www.wisecountyissues.com/?p=138  Peoples homes and communities are turning into mountaintop removal mining operations, that's wrong !

]]> Comment #3 by Rmoen http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-17-coal-industry-downplays-ccs-prospects-senate/ Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:24:32 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-17-coal-industry-downplays-ccs-prospects-senate/3 With the exception of still-unproven underground coal gasification, 'clean coal' looks like a Rube Goldberg contraption. It has so many moving parts that I expect it will nickel-and-dime us to death. Coal will no longer remain the cheap energy alternative, yet coal mining will continue to damage and pollute the earth.

-- Robert Moen, http://www.energyplanUSA.com

 

]]> With the exception of still-unproven underground coal gasification, 'clean coal' looks like a Rube Goldberg contraption. It has so many moving parts that I expect it will nickel-and-dime us to death. Coal will no longer remain the cheap energy alternative, yet coal mining will continue to damage and pollute the earth.

-- Robert Moen, http://www.energyplanUSA.com

 

]]> Comment #4 by Richard Heinberg http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-17-coal-industry-downplays-ccs-prospects-senate/ Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:51:15 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-17-coal-industry-downplays-ccs-prospects-senate/4 As discussed in my new book BLACKOUT: COAL, CLIMATE AND THE LAST ENERGY CRISIS, global and U.S. coal supplies are greatly over-estimated and coal will become more expensive and scarce during the next two decades--the timeframe for the development of carbon capture technology. "Clean coal" only makes economic sense if coal continues to be cheap and abundant (whether it makes engineering sense is another question). The coal industry wants to keep us hooked on their product, but we may in fact have a relatively short time in which to develop renewables and radical energy conservation before the lights start to go out--as is already happening in dozens of countries around the world, in some cases (India, Pakistan) because of coal shortages.

Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute (http://www.postcarbon.org)

 

 

]]> As discussed in my new book BLACKOUT: COAL, CLIMATE AND THE LAST ENERGY CRISIS, global and U.S. coal supplies are greatly over-estimated and coal will become more expensive and scarce during the next two decades--the timeframe for the development of carbon capture technology. "Clean coal" only makes economic sense if coal continues to be cheap and abundant (whether it makes engineering sense is another question). The coal industry wants to keep us hooked on their product, but we may in fact have a relatively short time in which to develop renewables and radical energy conservation before the lights start to go out--as is already happening in dozens of countries around the world, in some cases (India, Pakistan) because of coal shortages.

Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute (http://www.postcarbon.org)

 

 

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