Are we done building coal power plants in the U.S.?

I think they will keep going because they have the lobbyists and powerful friends to keep on polluting. They also provide about half of the energy in the country and that's a powerful market to hold on to.

And all this talk of clean coal is as good as talking about hydrogen cars. It's just not commercially viable right now and won't be for about another 10 years. It's just a way of greenwashing the industry. They're nowhere near ready to launch anything that's been tested for safety and real reduction of energy and pollution.

In 2008, a three hundred-megawatt ability plant, which may generate sufficient ability to provide 100 and fifty,000 homes, develop into projected to cost $a million.a million billion no matter if that's equipped in southwestern Wisconsin and $a million.2 billion if it equipped in Portage. interior of an similar 365 days, a $2 - $3 billion deal develop into signed to construct the worlds best photo voltaic ability plant. This plant may cost more effective to construct, yet may produce sufficient ability to ability 375,000 homes and has 0 health expenses to the encompassing community as therefore of the air high quality, and does no longer effect the surroundings like lengthy time period coal mining.

Not necessarily because coal can be utilized by a system called "Plasma Enhanced Meltor" or PEM for short. Just google it and see for yourself. The system breaks down the coal and the gas can be used for generating electricity or vehicles without the harmful emissions of CO2.

As I understand it, it is possible to capture *all* the carbon from coal power at a cost of about 30% of the power generated. Even at that, I would expect coal to be cost competitive with other sources, especially near locations like coal mines.

Future developments may decrease the carbon capture cost, making clean coal power even less expensive.

Coal also produces heat while generating electricity. This has a potential for "district heating" which is largely untapped in the United States, but could make coal power more attractive compared to wind or other heatless sources of power.

We will be stuck with coal until it runs out because the party newly in power is funded by the industry. This political party that bleeds green is responsible for preventing new and cleaner technology like nuclear and space based solar from taking over 30 years ago.

And coal, oil, gas fried power plants have been scrubbing out Co2, So2, and carbon black from their stacks for over a hundred years. Where do you think the commercial supplies of these industrial gases come from? Liberals are really not very well educated, believe it.

Let's see. We have more coal reserves in this country than anywhere else. We have more oil shales. We have a country with a majority party that isn't serious about utilizing our own resources, unlike any other country in the world. That party also whines that we are a small proportion of the population of the world that uses more resources. My guess we are in real trouble because they would prefer to pander to wackos and give BS to American citizens. We will see how the country likes it. My guess is we will swing way right in 4 years. You remember all the pandering Obama did in coal states ( I would call it lying). The chickens will come home to roost.

I'm really curious how the economic welfare is going to exist without it. Did someone actually find the easy button and magic wand? Give it 5 - 10 yrs. In the mean time expect more carbon dumping. If your one of the fortunate ones that can afford alternative energy and/or green blocks. Then pat yourself on the back, you don't represent a minute fraction of the world. 'In a nutshell get real.'

The easy answer has been all over the news, Obama while talking about how dirty fossil fuels are has dropped any form of power generation other than coal. So 4 more years of coal power being #1 until we can throw this new batch of luddite bums out.

We should build more coal plants.

The USA has lots of coal supplies.

We can build clean burning coal plants.

Better to use coal , nuclear, wind , solar and gas

for electricity than foreign imports.

We just need to stop sending coal generated

electricity to California..

Turn off their lights.

I hope not. I'm pro coal all the way!!! The electricity from coal probably made it possible for you to write this ridiculous question.