Green Options » Clean coal cartoon http://greenoptions.com/tag/clean-coal-cartoon Posts tagged 'Clean coal cartoon' Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:15:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Mean Joe Green #3: ‘Clean’ Coal!? http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/03/29/mean-joe-green-clean-coal/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/03/29/mean-joe-green-clean-coal/#comments Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:15:58 +0000 Joe Mohr http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/03/29/mean-joe-green-clean-coal/ Both of our “green” democratic candidates were recently heard stumping for “clean” coal technologies! I have two big problems with this: 1. There is no such thing as “clean” coal (see #2), And, 2. We are decades away from clean “coal” technology being widely deployed anyway. In the same amount of time we could deploy an arsenal of solar and wind farms that could give us a similar amount of electricity without the mercury, carbon, and particulate pollution. All the while, keeping our mountains in tact!

“Clean” Coal is a joke — so this cartoon pretty much writes itself…

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