Coal is cheap, plentiful, and now with new advances in "clean coal" burning technology is even more practical for the environment. The Left maniacally hates coal, so speeding up use of these promising new "clean coal" technologies will take strong political leadership backed by the demand for more low cost energy.
The good news is that's exactly part of what Trump is running on, cheap, abundant, domestically produced energy fueled in part by good old U.S. coal.
I'm all for it!
...more on clean coal technology
An experimental new technology captures more than 99 percent of the carbon dioxide from burning coal
www.smithsonianmag.com
excerpt:
One of the most promising new technologies starts with pulverized coal, a dry mix the consistency of talcum powder that’s already burned in many coal-fired power plants. The pulverized coal is mixed with partially rusted iron particles the size of ice cream sprinkles inside a hot reactor at 1,650 degrees Fahrenheit. The coal-iron mixture undergoes a chemical reaction that removes the rust and produces carbon dioxide and steam, which is then cooled and liquid water condenses out, leaving a highly purified stream of carbon dioxide.
The rust-free iron particles then move to a second reactor, where they are burned under air, causing them to rust again. This rusting reaction produces enough heat to boil water, and the resulting steam drives an electricity-producing turbine.
The carbon-capturing material does not need to be separately heated to liberate pure carbon dioxide, as it does in amine scrubbing, and for that reason “the capture energy requirements are almost negligible,” explains Liang-Shih Fan, the Ohio State University chemical engineer who spearheaded this research.
