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Posted by GeekBoy on February 4, 2008, 9:06 pm
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> So, I shouldn't plan on setting up that coal fired homepower plant
> then? Or are you addressing the use of "Renewable" coal? Do
> you have any idea how the NewsGroups work?
>
> You might just post to one of the political "Green" echo chamber
> newsgroups, these are for more practical discussion.
>
Typical NOOB statements.
Just why are these groups not "pratical?"
> Luck;
> Ken
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>> FutureGen "Cleanish Coal" Plant Cancelled
>>
>>
>> The controversial attempt to build a coal plant that captures and stores
>> its greenhouse gas emissions took another step backward yesterday. The
>> Department of Energy pulled its financial support from a project known as
>> FutureGen, which would have been a first-of-its-kind cleanish plant. The
>> DOE cited the rising costs of the project. From the environmental blogs
>> through cleantech to the Wall Street Journal, the move was seen as
>> slowing the development of so-called carbon capture and sequestration
>> technologies.
>>
>> Rhetorically, it sure looks bad for the Bush administration to bang the
>> clean coal technology drum during the State of the Union and then cut its
>> most visible support for the technology the next day. But that would
>> assume that the Bush administration was serious about climate change and
>> not just following the painfully misguided and counterproductive
>> Republican rhetorical playbook on global warming. And the administration
>> clearly isn't serious about climate change.
>>
>> This climate change talking point is, as summarized by Joseph Romm,
>> "Technology, technology, blah, blah, blah." As the latest FutureGen
>> plug-pulling makes clear, there's no actual support for the necessary
>> technologies. It really is just talk.
>>
>> The Bush rhetorical strategy also makes it hard to argue for certain
>> technologies' role in combating climate change without having your good
>> faith questioned by other well-meaning environmental advocates. I get it
>> that waving the clean coal flag has rhetorical value for the forces of
>> carbon heaviness, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the actual
>> technology couldn't eventually have real value in the battle against
>> atmospheric carbon dioxide accumulation..........
>>
>> http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/02/futuregen-clean.html
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