Germany Fired Up Over Clean Coal

MIT's Technology Review is reporting on the world's first coal-driven power plant designed to capture and store C02 emissions. "Vattenfall's small 30-megawatt plant burns the lignite in air from which nitrogen has been removed. Combustion in the resulting oxygen-rich atmosphere produces a waste stream of carbon dioxide and water vapor, three-quarters of which is recycled back into the boiler. By repeating this process, known as oxyfuel, it is possible to greatly concentrate the carbon dioxide. After particles and sulfur have been removed, and water vapor has been condensed out, the waste gas can be 98 percent carbon dioxide, according to Vattenfall. The separated carbon dioxide will be cooled down to -28 C and liquefied. Starting next year, the plan is to transport it by truck 150 miles northwest, to be injected 3,000 meters underground into a depleted inland gas field in Altmark. Ideally, in the future, the gas will be carried by pipeline to underground storage, says Vattenfall. "

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Right, because government corps. work so well

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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have done so well lately, let's nationalize utilities now. Because government is more efficient than the private sector.

Just what I want, the government, free of any profit or competition concerns that a private company would have, either telling me my energy bill is going up because of some monstrously expensive CO2-curbing technology, or better yet, rationing energy a la Cuba. I guess I'll have to use those mod points later, since there's a brownout right n