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CLEAN COAL MYTHS: ?Coal will never be clean. It is possible to make coal emissions cleaner. In fact?

By Glenn Reynolds

CLEAN COAL MYTHS: “Coal will never be clean. It is possible to make coal emissions cleaner. In fact, we’ve come a long way since the ’70s in finding ways to reduce sulfur–dioxide and nitrogen-oxide emissions, and more progress can be made. But the nut of the clean-coal sales pitch is that we can also bottle up the CO2 produced when coal is burned, most likely by burying it deep in the earth. That may be possible in theory, but it’s devilishly difficult in practice.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on December 09, 2009 (boomark / email).