[dinoparty]

Here in Illinois, word on the street is that the President himself pulled the plug because he was angry that Texas wasn't chosen as the Futuregen site. This should hurt Dick Durbin (and to a lesser extent Obama) politically ... except they don't give two figs about anything south of Chi-town.

[DGHoodini]

This disgusts me. But I doubt it was Bush that did it in for politics. My bet is on corrupt construction/unions tied to organized crime that are cheating and defeating this plant from being built. Time to send Feds in to see whose doing all the thieving, and sending them all to prison for a decade or two.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

WSJ’s story said $2.9 billion for 250 mw. That’s way out of line.

[org.whodat]

Sometimes fraud gets caught before the stealing part. This whole thing was nothing but fraud.

[Western Phil]

This whole concept involved a number of “new” technologies never before tried. One of the ideas is to take the hydrogen from the coal and generate electricity using fuel cells. This has never been done for voltages required for large generators. In addition, the proposed carbon sequestration technology is entirely new. It is likely that Future Gen is asking for too large a jump in technology and would likely fail as proposed. This does not mean that the idea should not be pursued since there may be large advantages associated with it.