[dbacks]

[Clean coal has a great future.]

I may be wrong but I recall Iowa coal is D I R T Y.

[ken in texas]

I may be wrong but I recall Iowa coal is D I R T Y.

Yes, you might be wrong, I don't know. But don't you think there have been many technological advances since you first heard that?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The last Iowa coal was mined in about 1985. As you might guess, coal buyers want high BTUs, low ash, low sulfur and low slagging and fouling. Iowa coal is low BTU, high ash, high moisture and sulfur and will slag and foul. Typical fusion temperature of the ash is about 1950.

[Myrddin]

My research coal cars are hauling low sulfur coal from the Powder River Basin, Wyoming to coal fired power plants north and south of Birmingham, AL. That's a long way to go, but the coal is the quality necessary to meet the emissions requirements. The Miller plant near Quinton burns 45 tons of coal per minute.