By Nick Loris.
We’re fast approaching the deadline for the Environmental Protection Agency’s ruling on whether or not the agency will regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. While the ruling would just be the fir…

Clean coal technology, (Carbon Capture and Storage) is a long (long) way off into the future.

The enormous scale of something like this is the part you are not being told about.

The US currently burns just on 1.1 Billion tons of coal to produce the near 50% total power consumption for electricity. This produces just on 3 billion tons of CO2.

That CO2 somehow has to be extracted from the plant(s) exhaust, somehow liquified, somehow collected, and then pumped (transported) through thousands of miles of as yet unconstructed pipelines from each coal fired plant to as yet unfound stable rock formations where it is to be somehow pumped back into the ground via huge unconstructed pumping plants to areas where it has to stay (forever) without leaching back out to the surface, or into other areas.

That's 3 Billion tons each and every year.

The cost will be astronomical, even if the multitudes of technologies required for this process can be worked out.

Clean coal, the 'cute' catchphrase they attach to this, is at least 20 years away, if it can ever be proved to work at all, let alone on the scale required.

Something like this would be a plant closer just because of the humungous costs involved for retrofitting plants, costs that would have to be passed to consumers, and if those plants close, there will just be no electricity on a 24/7/365 basis, as those so called environmentally favoured plants cannot provide that stability and reliability of regular and constant supply of electricity.

Tony.

If the members of the EPA had any conscience or respect for this country and the freedom they grew up with as it once displayed, Or conscience, or respect to the people to be able to gain back that freedom, the EPA would refute or dismiss the regulations.

A lot of people don’t know exactly what clean coal technology is, so I’ll fill you in: it refers not to any one technology, but to an entire suite of advanced technologies.

During the America’s Power Factuality Tour, we’ve been traveling around the country talking to the people who are behind the production of cleaner electricity from coal – including a stop at the Pleasant Prairie Power Plant in Wisconsin. They’ve installed a retrofit system that has reduced nitrogen oxide emissions by 90 percent and sulfur dioxide emissions by 95 percent.

In addition, through a pilot project in partnership with Alstom Power, they’re developing the latest in carbon capture technology. Check out http://sn.im/factuality5 to get the facts on clean coal technology once and for all.

stupid premise. Another bureaucracy will exacerbate my breathing

even more. GIVE IT UP ALREADY!!!!