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In a message dated 5/17/2005 6:18:29 A.M. Alaskan Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
One major problem, of course, is "bait and switch" -- the Bush Administration "policy" for every political issue on the table. The "talk" is all near-zero emissions coal; the "walk" is all near-usual emissions coal. In Alaska, the 'clean-coal' demonstration plant near the entrance
to Denali National Park, built with DOE money has never worked as a
clean coal plant even though they ignited tires to get the flame hot
enough to burn the "clean" coal. It is/was a monumental failure of a
technology touted as a way to make coal a useable fuel for the future
with little environmental impact.
The plant currently operates as a standard coal plant much to the
dismay of the local human and animal populations. I would strongly
suspect that zero emission coal plants are just a change in terminology.
Robert Maxwell
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