us futuregen clean coal project agreed....


this looks rather optimistic and maybe even muddled at present....
but it is useful research....
it is in fact a very small project in terms of us future energy
requirement and will be very costly relative to current generating
plant....
as you will realise i am also very unconvinced by 'the hydrogen economy'
regularly being touted by the bush advertising machine

coal is a considerable potential resource but is presently inherently
filthy.....this is a step towards attempting to alter that situation.

therefore treat this section with caution....

http://fossil.energy.gov/programs/powersystems/futuregen/futuregen_fact***.pdf
"The Integrated Sequestration and Hydrogen Research Initiative is a $1
billion government/industry partnership to design, build and operate a
nearly emission-free, coal-fired electric and hydrogen production plant.
The 275-megawatt prototype plant will serve as a large scale
engineering laboratory for testing new clean power, carbon capture, and
coal-to-hydrogen technologies. It will be the cleanest fossil fuel-fired
power plant in the world."
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http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/33891/story.htm
"The FutureGen Industrial Alliance, including big utilities like American
Electric Power Co. and Southern Co. and coal producers like Peabody
Energy, have signed a deal with the Energy Department to build the
275-megawatt plant, worth $950 million."
.....
"Other US partners are Consol Energy Inc., Foundation Coal Holdings and
Kennecott Energy.

International partners are China Huaneng Group, China's biggest coal
producer, and mining and energy group BHP Billiton Ltd./Plc., the world's
biggest mining company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia"

note the growing cooperation being built by the usa with the obvious
intent on spreading leading edge technology to developing countries...
a rational approach to kyoto type objectives...
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now this article with a typically foolish heading and spin that could only
be crafted by people who do not understand america and the american
approach to government....
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/33863/story.htm
"While US President George W. Bush refuses to accept the Kyoto Protocol to
cut greenhouse gas emissions, at least 40 million Americans will find
themselves bound to the international treaty to curb global warming.

Since the protocol took effect last February, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels
has convinced 192 cities to agree to cut emissions 7 percent from 1990
levels by 2012 - the recommended target for the United States, which emits
25 percent of the world's heat-trapping gases."
....
"California's Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has won
environmentalists' praise at the conference with progress on his ambitious
plan to reduce greenhouse gases in the nation's most populous state 80
percent from 1990 levels by 2050."


california if treated independently would be one of the world's leading
economies all on its lonesome!
the silly sideswipes at bush primarily indicate ignorance on the part of
the writer....

regards...

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