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Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 7:51 am Post subject: Clean Coal Technologies |
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China uses a lot of coal:
Chart: http://www.eia.gov/countries/analysisbriefs/China/images/total_energy_consumption.png
Perhaps, the U.S. should be using more:
Chart: http://barryonenergy.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/figure-1a.jpg
Clean coal technologies:
http://americaspower.org/clean-coal-technologies
U.S. Department of Energy:
http://www.fossil.energy.gov/education/energylessons/coal/coal_history.html
"...Sounds like coal is a dirty fuel to burn. Many years ago, it was. But things have changed. Especially in the last 20 years, scientists have developed ways to capture the pollutants trapped in coal before the impurities can escape into the atmosphere. Today, we have technology that can filter out 99 percent of the tiny particles and remove more than 95 percent of the acid rain pollutants in coal."
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Electric cars, and many countries, will need coal.
More demand for natural gas, including natural gas vehicles, will raise natural gas prices.
Coal May Pass Oil As World’s No. 1 Energy Source By 2017, Study Says
NPR
December 18, 2012
“Despite a slowdown in U.S. consumption, coal is poised to replace oil as the world’s top energy source — possibly in the next five years, according to the International Energy Agency. The rise will be driven almost entirely by new energy demands in China and India, the IEA says.
Together, China and India will account for more than 90 percent of the rise in demand for coal over the next five years, according to the IEA.
The agency predicts that coal’s growth trend will hold everywhere in the world except the United States, where it says the wide availability of cheap natural gas brought a decline in coal demand.
By 2017, the IEA also expects India to surpass the U.S. as the world’s second-largest coal consumer.
Europe’s coal consumption is also rising…demand for coal has surged as a result of sky-high natural-gas prices in international markets and declining output from nuclear power as Germany phases out its fleet of reactors.”
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/12/18/167546881/coal-may-pass-oil-as-worlds-no-1-energy-source-by-2017-study-says
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“America has more coal within its borders than any other country with over 260 billion tons of coal reserves. America’s recoverable coal reserves has the energy equivalent of 900 billion barrels of oil, more than the Middle East’s known oil reserves.
http://americaspower.org/america-powered-worlds-largest-supply-coal
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Energy is needed to produce GDP.
And, fossil fuels raised living standards dramatically, along with raising life expectancies substantially.
Moreover, fossil fuels are much cleaner today than in the past, and they’ll be cleaner in the future.
Until there’s a practical (rather than a propaganda) alternative, oil, natural gas, and coal will be the bulk of our energy usage.
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