If you're reading this blog, I'm preaching to the converted, however there is a great article in Scientific American here summarising the destructive spiral of events that the supposedly 'clean-coal' technology has had on the planet.
'Clean-coal': lot's of spin and hollow promises from the coal industry that not only is delaying renewable-energy development, but actively blocking it with hundreds of millions of dollars of spin and lobbying in the US alone (let's not even talk about all that wasted 'research' funding subsidies the coal industry is receiving) - the ever distant promise of clean coal, let's just do nothing until that arrives. Sounds very familiar to other fairy tales of the modern age like hydrogen-powered cars, and cold-fusion generation to name a few.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that it won't be cheaper to run a coal-fired power station whilst:
- scrubbing all of the CO2 out of the emissions (that's over 11-billion tonnes a year),
- compressing the CO2 (yes, the same 11-billion tonnes every year)
- transporting the CO2 to a suitable storage site (how do you transport 11-billion tonnes of CO2a year anyway?)
- pumping and storing that same CO2 underground so that it won't leak... for all future generations of mankind (that's more stringent than nuclear waste storage, however there's 11-billion tonnes of it every year to deal with)
How stupid does the coal industry think the public are?? Obviously fairly stupid. For a great laugh, check the latest spin commercial from the US coal industry (are there people out there that actually buy this??). Oh man, I would love to meet one of the geniuses in the marketing team behind this one...
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