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Originally Posted by john70t
[green]RWebb, as Red-beard mentioned there are new environmental standards for coal.
Using air-injection in the stacks, modern coal burning facilities can reduce these harmful emissions down to .00048 ppm.
The solution to pollution is dillution. [/green]
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I'm aware of that. Unfortunately, the new stds. still leave coal as the dirtiest fuel out there (barring the risk of something horrible happening with nuclear power, and that likelihood is remote).
We ought to (and likely will) use natural gas as a transitional fuel until we get solar going strong in some future decade.
Another issue with coal is that China and other users are not adhering to virtually any cleaner technologies, and their pollution pollutes us.
Finally, none of the technologies reduce carbon emissions.