How Many Years Will It Take To Develop Clean Coal Tech?

Completely disregarding this three card monte game the environmental cases are pulling on our country and this world, the technology is here now, but is rarely accepted by the brain dead sheeple who vote down proposed new plants.

Clean coal produces a mixture of steam, water vapor, and carbon dioxide. It already exists. There is a clean coal plant that I can see from the roof of my house. I live in SE Texas.

Liberal enviro-nazis claim that it is not really clean because of the CO2, even though there is no proved connection between global warming and CO2.

The chart that Gore tried to use as proof of the connection had an 800 year time gap, which he failed to disclose, and on which his enviro-nazi friends in the media, have never called him out, but the time gap, which could only prove that CO2 rises 800 years after global temperature increases, still exists.

True clean coal will never become economically feasible. Solar, wind, geothermal and other renewable technologies are becoming cheaper and more efficient. These renewable sources will displace coal before 'clean coal' is a commericially viable energy source.

On the point of 'clean coal', people seeking the truth should ensure they find data and methodologies which are thorough and objective. Check out this video, its opinions may be cynical, but they are more realistic than that of the coal industry which it mocks.

http://action.thisisreality.org/page/s/coenbrother...

On a related topic, here are some interesting facts regarding liquid coal as a transportation energy source [facts are from Scientific American Magazine, July 2007]:

"On the environmental side, the polluting properties of coal—starting with mining and lasting long after burning—and the large amounts of energy required to liquefy it mean that liquid coal produces more than twice the global warming emissions as regular gasoline and almost double those of ordinary diesel. As pundits have pointed out, driving a Prius on liquid coal makes it as dirty as a Hummer on regular gasoline."

"no operating coal-to-liquid plants exist in the U.S., and researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology estimate it will cost $70 billion to build enough plants to replace 10 percent of American gasoline consumption."

Clean coal is not a well defined term. Historically, it always refers to the next generation of coal technology on the horizon.

We do not have clean coal.

Coal has the highest CO2 released per energy output then any other we use.

Climate change scenarios intail cutting our CO2 emissions or VERY frightening things are going to happen.

Clean coal technology is estimated at decades away. We need to reduce our emmissions now.

An outstanding question! Personally I don't think clean coal is possible. The answer, obviously, is wind, sun thermal, and - most of all - Bio Fuels.

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We already have "clean coal".

There's no such thing! God Bless!