Bush Admin pulls its financial support from FutureGen "Cleanish Coal" Plant

 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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'Cleanish Coal' ?????

Another Bushisim?

 

Guess you didn't read the article.

   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.

Luck;
    Ken

 

Typical NOOB statements.

Just why are these groups not "pratical?"