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> once sourced and delivered to a power plant ready to burn This is the reason "clean coal" is an oxymoron - burn it as clean as you want, but enormous environ
by dminor 10y ago
> once sourced and delivered to a power plant ready to burn
This is the reason "clean coal" is an oxymoron - burn it as clean as you want, but enormous environmental damage has already been done to get it out of the ground.
- tptacek 10y agoNo, it's a reason why "clean coal" doesn't fully address the environmental problems of coal. Perhaps you'd prefer the (unassailable) term "cleaner coal".
- notgood 10y agoIf "clean coal" is the right term for coal that is not as toxic in one of the steps of using it, then we may call "good hitman" to the ones who don't kill children nor woman; or we may call "positive genocide" the massive killing of only convicted criminals.
- lostlogin 10y agoMy grandfather remembers 'clean coal' being pushed in Scotland 70 years ago. Basically they washed the coal with vast amounts of water. Then at night they pumped the very dirty water into local streams.