US Pulls Plug on Low-CO2 Powerplant Project

Geoffrey.landis writes "The administration announced plans to withdraw its support from FutureGen. FutureGen was a project to develop a low CO2-emission electrical power plant, supported by an alliance of a dozen or so coal companies and utilities from around the world. The new plant would have captured carbon dioxide produced by combustion and pumped it deep underground, to avoid releasing greenhouse-gas into the atmosphere. It had been intended as a prototype for next generation clean-coal plants worldwide. Originally budgeted at about a billion dollars, the estimated cost had "ballooned" to $1.8 billion, according to U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman."

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Re:Who cares

[timmarhy]

"WHY on earth would you prefer them to invest money in continuing to use the horror that is coal, but just shove the waste underground?"

because if we did that, retards like you would be the first to log on from their imac down at the local starbucks, and start complaining about all the power black outs and how you can't afford your expreso enemas anymore because your power bill is $20000 a year.

tidal power is limited by geography and solar is a JOKE when your talking about powering a country.

and before you start calling me a right wing environmental hater, how many solar installations have you done? because i've done 3 large ones and i actually know how much solar costs.

our realistic options for power generation as things stand in the next 5 years are : - coal, nuclear.

anything else is an expensive joke.