Sentences with phrase «as clean coal»

There is no such thing as clean coal, fracking is a disaster, and oil is the same old thing we have been fighting wars over for years.

[20] The previous Prime Minister, John Howard, stated that nuclear power is a better alternative, as clean coal technology may not prove to be economically favorable.

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Currently, nuclear and wind energy (as well as clean coal) are between 25 and 75 percent more expensive than old - fashioned coal at current prices (not including all the hidden health and environmental costs of coal), and so it will take a stiff charge on coal to induce rapid replacement of obsolete plants.

The stark reality is that there is literally no such thing as clean coal electricity in the United States today — not one American home today is powered by a coal - burning plant that captures and stores its carbon pollution.

The large scale of many energy technologies such as clean coal processes and nuclear power and the long time frames over which their development takes place further hinder the participation of the private sector in the development of such technologies.

There is no such thing as clean coal at this time, and it is doubtful that we will ever be able to fully eliminate emissions of mercury, other heavy metals, and radioactive material in the mining and burning of coal.

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On the 1st day of Christmas my true love said to me: There's no such thing as clean coal On the 12th day of Christmas Bank of America gave to me: 12 destroyed communities 11 unemployed workers 10 asthmatic children 9 flattened mountains 8 sludge - filled rivers 7 poisoned elementary schools 6 paid off politicians 5 coal silos 4 melting glaciers 3 coal trucks 2 blackened lungs and theres no such thing as clean coal

Apologies: «We are pleased to support the message behind Kansans for Affordable Energy, which is that we can choose inexpensive U.S. energy sources such as clean coal, or we can jeopardize our future from risky foreign sources.

In a similar vein, the American Coal Foundation ($ 312,000) brags about progress in «near - zero emissions technology» such as clean coal and carbon capture, and does not challenge Climate Change beliefs.

Senator Hillary Clinton has also recently said that «we should strive to have new electricity generation come from other sources, such as clean coal and renewables.»

There is no such thing as clean coal, but now, and in the next few years, in addition to finding alternatives to coal, we should be looking at ways of making coal burning more efficient.

Oh and FYI there's no such thing as clean coal, even though Obama has said there is, let alone that oil shale and tar sand - that stuff's even worse.

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Selected posts on coal from TreeHugger archives: 2.6 Million Cubic Yards of Toxic Coal Ash Slurry Released in Tennessee Dike Burst Coal Released Mercury Ruins Fishing and Duck Hunting There Is No Such Thing As Clean Coal

I'll just direct readers to the TreeHugger archives on why we think there's no such thing as clean coal, and why carbon capture and storage can't be relied upon to allow us to keep using even a small percentage of the amount of fossil fuels we continue to burn:

Fly Ash: Valuable Source Of Nutrients; Or Hazardous Waste... EPA Gets Coal Ash Hazardous Waste Regulation Do Over in Obama... There Is No Such Thing As Clean Coal

Inside the UNFCCC, protests continued as activists made their message clear: there is no such thing as clean coal.