Have you heard of the "tooth fairy"? Have you heard of "Bigfoot"? Have you heard of "clean coal"? You've heard about the tooth fairy and Bigfoot, but you've never seen. Why is that? Because they are not real. This can be a great "clean coal" down, but it is not real either. This is make-believe like the other two. The coal industry would like to believe that the new energy and improvement of the future, but this could not be farther from the truth.
America was built on coal. For decades, we used coal as the primary source of energy. Even today the use of coal. However, coal is not renewable and the American Coalition for Clean Coal Energy (ACCCE) wants you to believe otherwise. They have spent more than $ 60 million in a "clean coal" campaign that the markets for coal as a renewable energy source, when in fact it is not.
Coal has the highest carbon dioxide (CO2) of more than any other fossil fuel-29% of hydrocarbons and 80% more gas. Mercury is also an environmental problem because burning coal to produce electricity and heat is the biggest contributor to mercury air emissions.
Clean coal technology (CCT) refers to an attempt to reduce pollutants from burning coal. Therefore, no coal power plant is very clean. It is simply a new method of handling coal. The contaminants are redirected from the waste stream to another, not yet released into the environment. From start to finish, the process of burning coal for power is extremely damaging to the environment and public health risk.
Scientists have spent over 10 years researching the technologies that can make "clean coal", but no viable commercial solution has been discovered. The United States has spent more than $ 5 billion for "clean coal" a reality.