Clean Coal Technology?? This Is Reality Ad

zach · #1 12-06-2008, 10:25 PM

I just saw the Clean Coal: This Is Reality ad on TV.

This Is Reality

Lower Bandwidth Version: YouTube - Clean Coal: This Is Reality

From their site:

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The Facts

Burning coal is a leading source of global warming pollution."GHG Emissions and Sinks 1990-2006,” US EPA 2008
Burning coal is the dirtiest way we produce electricity.“Carbon Dioxide Emissions from the Generation of Electric Power in the United States,” US DOE 2000.; “GHG Emissions and Sinks 1990-2006,” US EPA 2008
There are no homes in America powered by clean coal.IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme CO2 Capture and Storage Database; Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program at MIT, CO2 Capture and Storage Project Database
CO2 emissions from US coal-based electricity are greater than emissions from all the cars and trucks in America.“GHG Emissions and Sinks 1990-2006,” US EPA 2008
The coal industry is spending millions advertising clean coal, but not a single clean coal power plant exists in the US today.“Big Coal Campaigning to Keep Its Industry on Candidates' Minds,” Wall Street Journal, Oct. 20, 2008 (link); IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme CO2 Capture and Storage Database (link); Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program at MIT, CO2 Capture and Storage Project Database (link)
"While you might have heard the phrase 'clean coal' during the presidential campaign, it's actually an oxymoron."Brian Williams, NBC News, Nov 18, 2008 (link)There are roughly 600 coal plants producing electricity in the US. Not one of them captures and stores its global warming pollution.“Electricity Facts,” US DOE 2008 (link); IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme CO2 Capture and Storage Database (link); Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program at MIT, CO2 Capture and Storage Project Database (link)
"'Clean coal' is like a healthy cigarette."Blan Holman, attorney, Southern Environmental Law Center in Charleson, S.C. (link)
There is not a single large-scale demonstration clean coal plant in the US today.IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme CO2 Capture and Storage Database (link); Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program at MIT, CO2 Capture and Storage Project Database (link)
"Virtually all the new coal plants that have been proposed will, just like their predecessors, release 100 percent of the CO2 they produce into the atmosphere, where it will linger--and contribute to global warming. link"Coal Power in a Warming World: A Sensible Transition to Cleaner Energy Options," Union of Concerned Scientists. Oct. 2008. (pdf link)
Although carbon sequestration has been the subject of considerable research and analysis, it has yet to be demonstrated in the form of commercial-scale, fully integrated projects at coal-fired power plants.“Coal Power in a Warming World: A Sensible Transition to Cleaner Energy Options,” Union of Concerned Scientists. Oct. 2008. (pdf link)
An investment in wind power produces almost three times as many jobs as the same investment in coal power. And an investment in solar power produces almost four times as many jobs, and energy efficiency, almost thirty times as many jobs as coal power. Based on analysis of the new energy economy released by Earth Policy Institute, Nov. 2008
"We don't have a plant here in the United States today that has commercially installed carbon capture technology."Joe Lucas, Vice President of Communications, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE). From: “Can Coal Be Clean? A Debate Between Michael Brune of Rainforest Action Network and Joe Lucas of American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.” Democracy Now! The War and Peace Report, Oct. 2008
"Without the price on greenhouse gas emissions that is delivered by cap-and-trade mechanisms, CO2 capture and storage will remain a daydream."Jeroen van der Veer, CEO of Shell's CEO July 2008 Madrid. Shell, “Delivering Energy for Sustainable Growth. The European Perspective," The 19th World Petroleum Congress Plenary Session, Madrid, June 30, 2008. (pdf link)

Karl · #2 12-26-2008, 08:48 PM

--> Clean Coal is a Joke | DeSmogBlog

Karl · #3 12-27-2008, 11:02 AM

On the topic of "clean" coal

> YouTube - Aerial footage: TVA storage pond breach in Harriman

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> Massive Coal Ash Spill in Tennessee puts the lie to Clean Coal | DeSmogBlog

Karl · #4 12-29-2008, 10:21 AM

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‘Clean coal’ is a method which promotes the use of coal as an energy source by emphasizing methods being developed to reduce its environmental impact. The irony is that that there are currently no commercial-scale clean coal power stations (coal-burning power stations with carbon capture and sequestration) currently available until the year 2020 or 2025. If we’re still here by then; ref Dec 21 2012.

The real truth is that the process of ‘clean coal’ is simply the process of transferring one waste stream to another, and hiding the truth… Coal is a dirty fuel. Period.

zach · #5 12-29-2008, 10:05 PM

I love this quote from that page:

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Other ridiculous oxymoron’s include; United Nations, virtual reality, clearly misunderstood, found missing, Microsoft works, and political promise to name but a few.

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Originally Posted by Karl

bronsencarl · #6 02-08-2009, 11:30 PM

Technological success has changed the life of everyone in the world and it has also changed the way coal mining companies explore and market coal. High-tech and safe exploitation and usage of coal is the demand of the 21st century.

lincdean · #7 02-25-2009, 03:03 AM

Yeah! I agree that Technological success has changed the life of everyone in the world and it has also changed the way coal mining companies explore and market coal. I too think that this coal technology can change the economic condition of world also.

VirtuousRen · #8 03-04-2009, 08:23 PM

I love that Ad . . . I just had to say. First time I saw it I started clapping hehe, glad someone posted it!

VirtuousRen · #9 03-04-2009, 08:25 PM

that oxymoron quote is fatastic!