WHILE President Obama’s cap-and-trade proposal to reduce greenhouse gases has been the big topic of recent environmental debate, the White House has also been pushing a futuristic federal project to build a power plant that burns coal without any greenhouse gases. Sounds great, right? Except the idea is a rehash of a proposal that went bust the first time around.
More important, the technology already exists to make huge reductions in greenhouse emissions from coal, allowing power companies to begin cutting the carbon footprint of coal today. Instead, advanced-technology coal power sits on the shelf while regulators wait to see what happens with a project that may be just an expensive boondoggle.
link: Op-Ed Contributor - The Dirty War Against Clean Coal - NYTimes.com
A bait-and-switch game that's been going on for quite some time now (we'll turn coal into oil! we'll run all our cars on hydrogen!), reminds me of the punchline to an old joke ("he just sits on the edge of the bed and tells me how good it's gonna be").
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