Obama Administration Pouring $1 Billion Into Clean Coal Project

Clean coal

President Obama said he wants to move us away from fossil fuels, he did not say we would be without them. We have to find sources of alternative energy so developing technologies that will not be so pollutant is important. We have to reduce our dependence on foregin oil.

financing

Where doesthe presdent think he's going to get all of thesse furnds if he isn't ggoing to raise taxes. Those printing machines in the treasury are going to wear out.

this is bad

no such thing as "clean coal"... the long term environmental and economic harms will far outweigh the benefits

Confused

So the Obama administration is spending one Billion dollars to develop coal burning, but today Obama spoke in support of his bill that will move "the nation away from its reliance on fossil fuels such as oil, coal and natural gas."

If the bill that will move us away from burning coal passes, the one Billion hardly seems like money well spent, (except to the people who end up with the Billion).

Of course, Billions are small change these days when the government sticks it's hands in our pockets.

cut coal use

Why don't all the peolpe that are against coal just turn off your ac this summer that will help and if you don't then your a "HYPOCRITE"

clean coal

This idea is really very good for economic of USA and for environment. Look on SAR. They used this technology many years. In Ukraine,where I living, we are want to be independent from russians gas and fuel. That's why as I know our government whant to use technology of clean coal also.

Clean coal is an oxymoron.

I would advise you to research "False Hope: Why carbon capture and storage won't save the climate." I would also urge you to speak with professors from Carnegia Mellon U and University of Pittsburgh who have stated that this technology will not work.

Further, Since vastly aggressive approaches are needed and justified, we should take them by decreasing our coal use as quickly as possible instead of prolonging it and actually INCREASING IT.

Research has shown that this technology will require an INCREASE IN COAL MINED AND BURNED BY AS MUCH AS 40% just to stay even with the amount of energy generated currently.

Further, this increase will not only vastly accelerate the damage from extraction--already a huge, but ignored, problem, it will also increase by millions of tons the amount of power plant waste being generated and disposed of in leaking landfills and pits in contact with groundwater.

Please research the amount of greenhouse gases released just from the mining process itself. I believe Pennsylvania accounts for approximately 1% of these gases.

In an age where current research is showing that human health is at risk from coal extraction (Please see Dr. Michael Hendryx's research and others.) and ash disposal, it seems to us that the last thing we would want to do is increase these problems by mining more coal.

There is no such thing as clean coal.

1 billion dollars

So were going to pump 1,000,000,000.00 of pork into illinos economy. This surly wouldn't have anything to do with Oboma being from that area would it. He is not in favor of this research as much as he is for the pork pumped into his home state

Hiding Problems

These "clean coal" plants are a joke. There is no advanced problem-solving technology here. They don't "burn" clean, they bury emissions deep into natural limestone in the earth - which could ultimately create far worse issues if ever released. Of course, it only has to sit in that limestone "leak-free" for 10,000 years before its neutralized. In 1986 1700 people died from a naturally occurring C02 release in Lake Nyos in Cameroon. Of course, this was a massive release in a fairly concentrated area with a very local population. But it shows you the dangers in deciding to simply "store" the waste product. Focus on the problems, not on how to hide the waste products.

With logic like this, why don't we also have silly plans like building nuke plants and firing used fuel rods out into space? Oops, I forgot that one was also out there a few years ago. There must be 8 year olds developing plance at the DOE.

So Foolish

There is no way to achieve a 'clean' coal.

As mentioned before the ash alone is contaminating the environment and then there is the gas emission which is supposed to be buried underground where we are told it will never escape. Yeah, I have a bridge to sell ya'.

We should be exhausting every alternate before we resort to polluting fuels, and look, it is Obama's first choice.

Such a disappointment.