"Clean coal" refers to the concept of making coal, a type of fossil fuel, less harmful to the environment. It involves using technologies and methods to reduce emissions of pollutants like carbon dioxide (CO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and other air pollutants that are released when coal is burned. The goal is to make coal a cleaner and more sustainable energy source.
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Clearly, both candidates see the need for development
of clean coal technology.
Now more than ever, it's important for prospective employees to understand the latest developments
in clean coal technology, sustainability, and safe practices.
Power industry officials, however, claim they can limit emissions by building so - called
clean coal plants and systems for capturing carbon.
The government's attention to R&D
on clean coal technologies, including carbon capture and storage (CCS) is also encouraging.
However, with rising levels of pollution, the government is keen on
developing cleaner coal technologies as well as renewable energy sources like solar, tidal, and biomass.
In 2009 alone, the government and the private sector plan to dedicate nearly a billion dollars to
clean coal research and development.
That takes electricity and that's got to be powered
by clean coal.
Is expanded fossil fuel exploration and
clean coal part of a greener energy policy?
And, yes, we're going to have to examine how do we
make clean coal and nuclear power work.
Now again there are all sorts of technologies, there is
even clean coal technology.
And when we do need to add new capacity, it will likely come from
far cleaner coal technologies, nuclear power and renewables like wind and solar, the two men asserted.
In short, while some are interested in sound bites, we'll keep going about the serious work of
providing clean coal, energy solutions and environmental improvement.
I have been a lay union representative for a coal branch for two decades, and during that time have been involved in initiatives
around clean coal.
Now that the emphasis has changed to include the removal of carbon dioxide emissions, the goal of
clean coal appears far from feasible.
If I recall they said they needed both a carbon price and some capital assistance from the
large clean coal fund.
The coming advancements
in clean coal will keep it viable for decades.
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.
In addition, some forms of nuclear fuel or
even clean coal technologies could be considered sustainable in some sense.
Do not assume from any of this that I
believe clean coal technologies to be safe or cost - effective.
Thus far investments by coal companies in
clean coal technologies have been insufficient even to fund a single large - scale demonstration plant.
«Coal can generate electricity 24/7 regardless of weather conditions,» said Laura Sheehan, a spokeswoman for the American Coalition for
Clean Coal Electricity in Washington.
Directors of
clean coal projects at Australia's power plants boil their future down to confidence: «We have to address urgently the need for large demonstrations to get that confidence,» said one during Australia's first national CCS conference in Melbourne.
I encourage you to check out ACCCE's
Clean Coal Carolers - I really don't mind sending a bunch of traffic their way because this latest publicity stunt is absolutely absurd and shows just how far the coal lobby is willing to go to market their dirty product as somehow being clean.
4) The New Green Deal would establish a public - private fund focused on creating
clean coal solutions that are safe, scalable and economically feasible.
First published in Cornerstone, Volume 4, Issue 3 By Malgorzata Wiatros - Motyka, Author and Analyst, IEA
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In fact, Dubai's commitment to a clean future stipulates the clean energy targets of the DIES 2050 strategy do not
include clean coal without carbon capture and storage (CCS).
If, however, we envisage replacing every conventional coal - fired plant on earth
with clean coal, things look very different, for the amount of pipeline infrastructure required to do this is staggeringly large.
But clean - coal technologies have yet to be demonstrated on a large scale commercially, and by the admission of even the president's own climate - technology task force,
clean coal doesn't have any prospect of making a big dent in the climate problem in the next 15 to 20 years.
While the President's broadcast from an alternative dimension celebrated the end of the «war on
beautiful clean coal», here on Earth, momentum increases to move to the energy of the future.
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