Posted on 06/12/2009 10:18:34 AM PDT by shove_it
FutureGen, the proposed first-of-a-kind “clean coal” plant in Illinois, finally got the green light today from the Obama administration, 18 months after the Bush administration basically killed the project.
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Finally . A “shovel-ready” job I can get behind.
That’s ok by me. I used to work in the Illinois coal industry and their soft coal is basically compressed garbage. The clean air act of 1993(?) did huge damage to the coal industry in that state and I have been wondering when someone would come up with answers for that segment of the industry.
Illinois coal reserves are truly vast. Almost unimaginable. Same with Kentucky.
It looks like a billion dollar pork guzzle which will turn out entirely useless, a legacy of Blagjevitch. Bush did right to kill it. Or try to kill it.
1. You burn the coal (carbon), it gives off carbon dioxide.
2. You capture the carbon dioxide and release the oxygen, leaving carbon.
3. Repeat......
The coal plants with scrubbers to eliminate polutants other than CO2 are fine, but they are talking about eliminating co2 which will never make sense.
We should be spending our govt bucks on advancing nuclear power.
The trouble with IL coal is that you need to tear up some of the most valuable crop land in the world to get to it.
Big difference between that and tearing up some desert.
My Great Grandfather made his fortune in IL coal and founded an industry. I spent my youth fishing and swimming in old strip mines.
These clean CO2 coal plants are not a good deal.
Read up on bond energies.
they are running around Pennsylvania looking for underground nooks and crannies where they can “sequester” CO2, which will eventually turn all of our lakes and streams into Club Soda
Not the first time FedGov bucks went up in smoke...
The Healy “Clean” Coal Plant (HCCP), owned by the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA), was selected initially by the U.S. Department of Energy as the site for a demonstration project in 1989 to test alternative coal-burning technologies. However in 1999, the plant failed a test to gauge reliability and economic feasibility, and the plant was shut down in January 2000, because safe, reliable and economic operation was not possible with the experimental technology. Despite over $300 million in capital investments in the HCCP, AIDEA engaged in protracted litigation with Golden Valley Electric Association (GVEA) over power purchase, operations and related issues, and the facility remained idle.
Nobody wanted to purchase this White Elephant as the cost to run was so high - even as a coal plant.
Yes, a lot of electric power in Alaska is coal power.
There’s not much energy in bonds right now......................;^)
Exactly. This is not about clean coal. This is all about green delusions and political greed.
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