In Best Case, "Clean" Coal Is Still Two Decades Away

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Why not Ohio?

State OKs tough plan to counter global warming
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/12/12/MNO514MCTB.DTL

California adopts the most sweeping curbs on greenhouse gas emissions in U.S.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-climate12-2008dec12,0,7794111.story

State board adopts sweeping air plan
http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/1468129.html

A visionary for electric cars
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2008/12/12/a_visionary_for_electric_cars/

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In Best Case, "Clean" Coal Is Still Two Decades Away
by David Sassoon - Feb 7th, 2008
Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) is a leading global consulting company specializing in the analysis of energy markets and geo-politics. It's chairman is Daniel Yergin, a Pulitzer-prize-winning author, business leader and member of the US Petroleum Council.
And a week in advance of its big annual energy conference in Houston, CERA has released a new report on the future of clean energy. Here's what it has to say about Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), the more technical term for so-called "clean" coal.
Even in the best case, CCS is at least two decades away from large scale deployment.....Current expectations seem to underestimate the lead time needed for widespread application.
Two decades. Twenty years. 2028. Which makes you wonder what all those "clean" coal commercials are doing on TV now -- the ones which show the orange extension cord plugged into a lump of -- um -- dirty coal.
The Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC), a very poorly concealed coal industry front group, has a $35 million war chest to spend on its ad campaign.
Jumping the gun a wee bit, don't you think? It's probably the first instance of something being marketed 20 years before its time.
Even the US Department of Energy agrees with Yergin's group. In a 2007 report, DOE said "carbon sequestration is in its infancy." The timelines of CCS technology developement DOE published in its own report support the CERA best-case estimate -- two decades away. Twenty years. 2028.
So how come, in its announcement that canceled funding for FutureGen, DOE said it intends to have multiple, commercial-scale clean coal plants with carbon capture and sequestration technology operational by 2015 or 2016, with each of the plants capable of sequestering 1 million tons of CO2 a year?
Somebody is lying.
Or maybe it's just ABEC money talking.

Are you listening Charlie Wilson?  Clean Coal is a pipedream.......Get on the solar and wind power bandwagon now before coal plants are all closed in your district.....putting thousands out of work.

Dennis Spisak
Mahoning Valley Green Party
Ohio Green Party

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