The executives of Mississippi Power have a promise: lots of electricity, very little pollution.
But it comes at ba cost: lots and lots of money up front, almost $2 billion.
The easily-predictable results: some power, lost of pollution, another promise broken, and lots and lots of money wasted.
Who can afford this? And who would be stupid enough to let this scam happen again--like it had many times before?
"The Cost of Clean Coal" at Grist.org:
http://exp.grist.org/...
What do clean coal, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy all have in common? THEY DO NOT EXIST!
There is no such thing as "Clean Coal". It is an oxymoron, a contradiction of terms. Coal is dirty. Burning coal produces ash, smoke, and toxic chemical fallout. There is no clean way to get energy from burning coal. Don't listen to the experts. The energy companies hired them to lie to the public, not to invent clean coal. The experts know it is impossible.
Why do American corporations persist at coal? It is an energy source that is not renewable. It is not safe to handle, and it requires too much handling. It has to be mined, stored, transported, and used, which all take risk, maintenance and energy use. The technology has hardly changed in over a century. Coal still has to be dug out of the earth by hand, pick and shovel.
Coal does not even yield much more energy that it uses to be mined and transported. It is primitive and wasteful. It should be obsolete since other energy-producing technologies came along: nuclear reactors, hydroelectric dams, wind farms and solar panels. We already have renewable energy, so why must we be stuck with coal, oil, gas and fracking?
The year os 2015. It is time for America to get fully adapted to the cleaner, safer technologies of renewable energy, and to close down the anachronistic steam machines and coal mines.