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The government is right on focusing on giving financial inducements to the existing coal plants to make their stacks cleaner. MIT Technology Insider Stories and breaking news from inside MIT about the latest research, innovations, and startupsin convenient monthly enewsletter. For example, utility giant American Electric Power estimates that the 629megawatt IGCC plants that it wants to build in Ohio and Virginia would about 2. 5 billion each, including carbon capture, which is at least percent cheaper per megawatt of power produced than projected costs for FutureGen.

The planet has been slowly burying CO2 for billion years, leaving bit of coal and oil, but mostly quadrillions of tons of carbonate rock. The danger in reversing that process is that the climate reverts accordingly, and at current rates of fossil fuel burning its reverting too quickly for living things to adapt. Rate this comment Reply Re Burn Biomassjpdemers on at PM Posts29Avg Rating Its incorrect to think that the earth spins along, and were just along for the ride humans do have foot on the accelerator, if not the steering wheel.

Both technologies convert coal into mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Customer Service These involve all the clean alternatives. Releasing the fossil carbon as CO2 changes this equilibrium. FutureGen was also overtaken by public concern over rising greenhousegas emissions and the emergence of rival commercial projects. The plant was to burn hydrogen gas produced from coal in hightemperature gasification vessels while carbon dioxide from the coal was sequestered deep underground. But can socialnetworking sites ever make money?