Old Rocks
Diamond Member
Will someone explain how coal is made clean?
It is various technologies being developed or already here. Some to treat the coal to burn cleaner and more efficiently, but the most promising are systems that will trap the bad emission created when you burn it, and separate them For use, disposal or storage. So that they are not released into the air at all.
It is entirely possibly theoretically to burn coal with Near 0 Emissions. Instead collecting the bad emissions for storage or even to be put to use in some cases. One idea is to store for example the Co2 Captured under ground.
I am not sure how far along they are with all this, If you believe some of the adds on TV, very far, but it is an idea worth perusing. We have a shit ton of Coal, and if we can find a clean way to use it that would be great. IMO.
Have you ever even looked at the cost of 'clean coal'? It makes nuclear and present solar look cheap.