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The thing is "clean coal" is not totally crazy, there's no scientific reason you couldn't separate hydrocarbons from coal and create a fuel that emits only CO2
by dnautics 5y ago
The thing is "clean coal" is not totally crazy, there's no scientific reason you couldn't separate hydrocarbons from coal and create a fuel that emits only CO2 -- it's just as an engineering, technical and economic task it turns out it really doesn't make sense, for the particular coal deposits that exist on the earth and/ot are economical to mine.
At some level you could argue it wasn't unreasonable to give it 'the old college try'.
- pas 5y agoSo burning coal and then pumping back everything into the ground that would come out of the smokestacks is not possible or it's just not economical?