While campaigning in West Virginia this week, they both said they were in favor of "the cleanest coal possible." Gee, is there such a thing as “clean coal”? Since there isn’t then I guess it is safe for them both to say they are for the cleanest coal possible and still feel very middle of the road.
Is this scar clean?
How about this one? Is this one the cleanest possible?Obama made the statement that he wishes to create "up to 5 million new green jobs ... including new clean coal jobs." I personally didn’t realize that clean jobs and coal jobs could co-exist. So this one is new to me.
These guys don’t seem to want to push the idea of giving up on coal and getting into some other cleaner, more environmentally friendly form of energy production.
Hey guys, just because your predecessors ripped the earth apart for coal and suffered from black-lung disease doesn’t mean you have to.
Why haven’t they gotten the message yet, that Americas citizens are tired of breathing that old symbol of industrialism?
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This clean coal thing is all the go with politicians here too. What they mean, though, is not that the extraction of the coal is clean but they are planning to put the CO2 back underground afterwards instead of releasing it to the air. I mentioned this is my recent post on an emissions trading scheme. They reckon this makes it clean. Strange but true!
Thanks for clearing that up. Does this mean they can actually use the CO2 that goes back into the ground?
I'll have to reread your post.
The scars they leave behind are pretty disgusting though.
Don't get too excited Greg! They don't actually USE the co2 for anything.But it came from in the ground so all they are doing is returning it to the ground - that's the environmental line they spin. However, will it stay there? And what other consequences are there? I think we should abandon it altogether and only go for renewable energy. But that is not a politically popular view. And yes, the scars are devastating.The whole thing is one big disaster but I don't know the answer to mining, in general, because we wouldn't have these computers without it!
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