Trump's First 100 Days

[Belsnickel]

(03-29-2017, 11:17 AM)Rotobeast Wrote: I agree with your assessment of the business dealings.

But, on clean coal, Ohio State was getting somewhere with their research on clean coal.
I'm sure there's some boondoggling, like pumping Co2 down into the earth, but I do think there is a way.

Also...Warren Buffett and George Soros were buying coal 2-4 years back.
I'm not seeing where they bankrupted their holdings, nor even sold.
Something is afoot.

There have been improvements as to the pollutants that are the end result of coal's use. That being said, the "clean coal" situation doesn't address the environmental impact of the extraction of the coal. The is why the non-PR, non-fluff term is coal pollution mitigation. Coal use continues to have a wide range of negative environmental impacts and those aren't being focused on, just cleaning or storing the very last byproduct. Some of the methods, there is still uncertainty about. Pumping the emissions underground could result in impacts we have yet to discover.

Proceeding with this route often takes attention away from investment in alternative sources. It's easier to look at mitigating the pollutants from something you already use instead of coming up with newer methods. But make no mistake, there is no such thing as clean coal if you don't ignore the entire process.