Wednesday, January 11, 2017

CCS as 'Clean Coal' or 'Clean Carbon'? There is nothing clean about either of these -- Yale Environment 360: First Carbon-Capture Coal Plant in U.S. is Now Fully Operational

To suggest that CCS is any kind of solution seems questionable when the captured CO2 is used to pump more fossil fuels.  And, lignite should just be left underground.  It is neither energy efficient nor economically rational nor environmentally rational to produce syngas from coal.



Yale Environment 360: First Carbon-Capture Coal Plant in U.S. is Now Fully Operational