Posted on 08/23/2004 5:44:59 AM PDT by I got the rope
Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry has unveiled a detailed version of his plan to invest $10-billion in clean coal technologies over the next 10 years, including a doubling of clean coal research on integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plants and other “zero-emissions” clean coal systems. The plan also calls for development of hydrogen turbines and “megawatt-scale” fuel cells powered by coal; expansion of university-led near-zero-emission research centers on geologic sequestration; support of at least five regional carbon sequestration demonstration projects; and a one-time appropriate request of $300-million to resolve a fossil energy budget shortfall.
Kerry’s proposal also calls for a 66% increase in clean coal technology demonstration funding to $2-billion.
"Have the maid wash it." :)
His W. Va poll numbers must be slipping...
Will he be importing the coal from Vietnam?
Isn't there a bunch of clean coal in Utah?
This is a "me too" moment.
President Bush approved this long ago.
http://energy.gov/engine/content.do?PUBLIC_ID=15083&BT_CODE=PR_PRESSRELEASES&TT_CODE=PRESSRELEASE
Note the date: 02/04
February 19, 2004
President Bush's Clean Coal Power Initiative Seeks New Round of Technology Improvement from Industry
Round II Reaffirms Commitment to Reduce Harmful Emissions
WASHINGTON, DC – The Department of Energy (DOE) has released a solicitation for the second round of proposals under President Bush’s Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI). The Department plans to provide approximately $280 million in federal funds for demonstrating barrier-breaking technologies that sharply reduce and ultimately eliminate pollution in coal-based power plants.
“Clean coal is a crucial element of our overall energy policy and our goal of a balanced, diverse energy portfolio that will provide Americans with energy and economic security and continued environmental improvement,” Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham said. “The technologies we seek to foster through Round II will help make it possible for coal to remain a cornerstone of our domestic energy portfolio, particularly for power generation, and to continue that role into the long-term future.”
He's trailing in West VA. This is hot air double talk. Can you make sense of he's saying? I sure as heck can't and I doubt coal miners will either.
He has unveiled a scheme to pi-- away ten billion dollars.
His clever plan involves the manufacture of gigantic Maytag washers.....
Kerry also co-sponsors environmentalist Sen. James Jeffords's Clean Power Act, which the coal industry regards as a death sentence in eliminating 90 percent of mercury emissions by 2008. The non-partisan Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates the Jeffords bill would reduce coal consumed for electricity by 43 percent, losing 1 million jobs.
Oh, he will allow RESEARCH and he will force the coal plants to spend billions to upgrade. He just won't allow mining or the building of new powerplants.
In Kerry's favor, there are only two ways in which the U.S. will achieve energy independence in the next decade (that's assuming we pump enough domestic oil to serve our transportation needs). One is to build many nuclear reactors (long term we'll have to import uranium, however). The other is to burn lots of coal. The U.S. is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
This may have the potential to mitigate both the oil import and organic waste programs.
I do know that Industry has a long history of utilizing waste or byproducts and transforming them into other uses and products that are sold. RE: steel minimills, aluminum mfg byproducts,rubber from tires and plastic waste into new products. Most are created and based on purely economic positives not the Guvernment!
So in order to run clean coal plants, we will be importing the coal from Indonesia conglomerates while our own resources sit right here in the ground..........
With Kerry in office, Indonesia is poised to become the next Saudi Arabia. How coinkydink?
Kerry's proposal is for the blue-blood RATs to get together with the gay RAT caucus and the krinton RATs and work together for energy independance.
They way it works is gay RATs like Barney Franks will obtain secret documents of damaging nature from the underwear of criminal RATs like Sandy Berger. They will then transfer the damaging documents between the @ss cheeks of tight-@ssed RATs like John Kerry where his clenched buttocks will exert the pressure needed to convert the carbon-rich cellulose in the paper into coal. Any excess pressure will produce diamonds which will then be sold for additional campaign funds for RAT candidates.
Simple. Community-based. Sustainable. What more could you want?
Tyson Foods is also building one of those plants to recycle their turkey and chicken guts. If all of the rendering plants, solid waste facilities, and yard waste were to be run through this process (which it all can, along with all of the waste tires), we wouldn't need to import any oil. ZERO.
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