Maybe you can help me here. As I understand it, coal is not prohibited as such, they simply established emission standards that coal can’t meet.
Which means that if someone discovers a method whereby coal can be used and still meet those emission standards, it’s right back in the game, and the inventor will become very, very rich.
Depending of course on the cost of the method for burning coal at low emissions.
Or am I missing something?
In one case here in Michigan they had a clean coal plant in the planning and development stages for a decade. Between the lawsuits to block it, endless permitting processes, and environmental impact studies they spent millions. When there was nothing left to stand in the way when the Granholm administration pulled the permits declaring that a new plant was unneeded.
Less than a month later, Granholm turned around and gave the go ahead for a wind farm and gave them subsidies.