Clean Coal

The scientists have been working on this for years, but the reality is that “Clean Coal” simply does not exist.

Clean Coal is nothing more than a marketing slogan which tries to make the dirtiest of fuels appear to be green and clean. Nothing could be further from the truth. Some very large companies, such as Chevron, are contributing to and participating in this deception. According to the U.S. Department of Energy burning coal is the dirtiest way we produce electricity. Then look at the mining process, whereby they knock off the tops of mountains, then strip mine the coal. This causes massive environmental damage.

After the industry having studied the idea of how to sequester the carbon dioxide emitted when coal is burned for 20 years, there still are no full sized electrical power generating facilities which use this technology. Not one. Because Clean Coal just simply is not a reality. It is nothing more than a catchphrase.

Coal is cheaper than the alternatives because of government subsidies, but it certainly is not clean.

It is sad that a massive lie like the concept of Clean Coal could be told and re-told for so many years. To some people it is like lying to yourself. If you tell yourself enough times that you are not ignorant and ugly, after a while some people actually begin to believe it. But it is still just a lie, no matter how strong your faith is.

The solution is both government encouragement of conservation, and then eliminating all the hidden government subsidies on coal and nuclear. Once this is done, both wind and solar power look very competitive.

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