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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsrefined (CLEAN) coal has a dirty secret. It regularly fails to deliver on its environmental promises
NO such thing as 'clean coal"!!
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Special Report: U.S. 'clean coal' program fails to deliver on smog cuts
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-coal-pollution-specialreport/special-report-us-clean-coal-program-fails-to-deliver-on-smog-cuts-idUSKBN1O2171
Tim McLaughlin
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(Reuters) - Champions of coal say the superabundant fossil fuel can be made environmentally friendlier by refining it with chemicals a clean coal technology backed by a billion dollars in U.S. government tax subsidies annually.
A view of Duke Energys Marshall Power Plant in Sherrills Ford, North Carolina, U.S. November 29, 2018. REUTERS/Chris Keane
But refined coal has a dirty secret. It regularly fails to deliver on its environmental promises, as electric giant Duke Energy Corp found.
Duke began using refined coal at two of its North Carolina power plants in August 2012. The decision let the company tap a lucrative federal subsidy designed to help the American coal industry reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides also known as NOx, the main contributor to smog and acid rain along with other pollutants.
In nearly three years of burning the treated coal, the Duke power plants collected several million dollars in federal subsidies. But the plants also pumped out more NOx, not less, according to data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency analyzed by Reuters.
The NOx emission rate at Dukes Marshall Steam Station power plant in Sherrills Ford, North Carolina, for example, was between 33 percent and 76 percent higher in the three years from 2012 to 2014 than in 2011, the year before Marshall started burning refined coal, the EPA data shows. .....................................
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refined (CLEAN) coal has a dirty secret. It regularly fails to deliver on its environmental promises (Original Post)
riversedge
Dec 2018
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Control-Z
(15,681 posts)1. I thought this was settled at least 10 years ago.
There is no such thing as clean coal.
Wounded Bear
(58,436 posts)2. Clean coal is an oxymoron...
Physics don't lie, you can't burn that shit without toxic outcomes.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)3. And our lame
steam media will not tell the real truth about this fakkery. They are all afraid of the consequences that befell NPR years ago with the price fixing story about ADM and the Andrus Family.
VOX
(22,976 posts)4. IQ45 informed us, in baroque detail, all about clean coal.
Weve ended the war on beautiful, clean coal...Theyre going to take out clean coal, meaning, theyre taking out coal. Theyre going to clean it.
DJT, 8/21/2018