No, there is no such thing as truly "clean coal". While technologies like carbon capture and sulfur scrubbers can reduce emissions from coal-fired power plants, coal combustion inherently produces pollutants and greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide.
Elaboration:
The term "clean coal" is often used to refer to technologies that aim to mitigate the environmental impact of coal burning, such as:
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS):
This technology involves capturing CO2 emissions from coal-fired power plants and storing them underground.
Flue Gas Desulfurization (FGD):
This process removes sulfur dioxide (SO2) from the exhaust gases of coal-fired power plants, reducing acid rain and other pollution.
Electrostatic Precipitators and Fabric Filters:
These technologies are used to capture particulate matter (ash) from the flue gases, reducing air pollution.
While these technologies can reduce the emissions from coal-fired power plants, it's important to note that coal combustion still produces greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, and other pollutants. Additionally, the extraction, processing, and transportation of coal also contribute to environmental impacts.
For these reasons, "clean coal" is often viewed as a misleading term, as it doesn't accurately represent the true environmental impact of coal. Many experts argue that transitioning to renewable energy sources like solar and wind is a more sustainable approach to meeting energy needs.
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Here is what A.I. has to say about “clean coal.”:
"I have learned with what evils tyranny infects a state. For it frustrates all the virtues, robs freedom of its lofty mood, and opens a school of fawning and terror, inasmuch as it leaves matters not to the wisdom of the laws, but to the angry whim of those who are in authority.”
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It also depends on what exactly is meant by 'Russiagate,' since the Mueller report found that Russian agents did indeed conspire to hurt Clinton and help Trump and team Trump welcomed that interference. From a Cato Institute article titled "No, 'Russiagate' Wasn't the Hoax That Team Trump Claimed it was":
https://www.cato.org/commentary/no-russ ... ims-it-wasYet the idea that the Mueller report exposed Russiagate as a “hoax” rests on a false binary: either Trump and/or his associates actively conspired with Russia, or Trump has been the victim of a “Russia, Russia, Russia” witch hunt. But there is also another scenario: that Trump ran as a Russia-friendly candidate, Russia interfered in the election to help Trump (as the Mueller report very clearly states), and Trump and his cronies were fine with that. And that scenario is not a hoax or a concoction of the Steele dossier.
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Russians started connecting with Republicans through the NRA, did they not? I also seem to recall that Paul Manafort was in deep with the Russians.
"I have learned with what evils tyranny infects a state. For it frustrates all the virtues, robs freedom of its lofty mood, and opens a school of fawning and terror, inasmuch as it leaves matters not to the wisdom of the laws, but to the angry whim of those who are in authority.”
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Next, Ceeboo can tell me if the Trump Administration would even keep in place any of the processing requirements and regulations you’ve listed as they try to push coal into the marketplace and into your lungs.Kishkumen wrote: ↑Sun May 11, 2025 12:03 amHere is what A.I. has to say about “clean coal.”:
No, there is no such thing as truly "clean coal". While technologies like carbon capture and sulfur scrubbers can reduce emissions from coal-fired power plants, coal combustion inherently produces pollutants and greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide.
Elaboration:
The term "clean coal" is often used to refer to technologies that aim to mitigate the environmental impact of coal burning, such as:
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS):
This technology involves capturing CO2 emissions from coal-fired power plants and storing them underground.
Flue Gas Desulfurization (FGD):
This process removes sulfur dioxide (SO2) from the exhaust gases of coal-fired power plants, reducing acid rain and other pollution.
Electrostatic Precipitators and Fabric Filters:
These technologies are used to capture particulate matter (ash) from the flue gases, reducing air pollution.
While these technologies can reduce the emissions from coal-fired power plants, it's important to note that coal combustion still produces greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, and other pollutants. Additionally, the extraction, processing, and transportation of coal also contribute to environmental impacts.
For these reasons, "clean coal" is often viewed as a misleading term, as it doesn't accurately represent the true environmental impact of coal. Many experts argue that transitioning to renewable energy sources like solar and wind is a more sustainable approach to meeting energy needs.
Lol. I don’t think so. Because populists apparently love coal pollution.
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Trump has already admitted that his own son met with Russians in a hotel room at Trump Tower to try to ‘dig up dirt’ on Clinton.
But, “tHe sToRiEs aBoUt mEeTiNg wItH rUsSiAnS aRe fAkE ..!!
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/06/63586039 ... on-clinton
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No, Bret. That was disinformation. And it doesn’t matter anyway, because both sides do it. So just ignore that completely unique and tragic moment in American history in which a petulant, sore-loser narcissist lied compulsively for months about an imagined rigged election and then held a rally to whip up a march on and into the Capitol by immature yet dangerous sycophants in order to ‘take back’ what he claimed was ‘stolen’ (or stollen, depending on which comment from him is being read) and disrupt or overturn election proceedings.Bret Ripley wrote: ↑Sat May 10, 2025 9:14 pmIt seems weird that anyone needs to be reminded that he orchestrated a plan to ignore the results of an election. Literally. You may have seen something about it -- it was in all the papers for a while.
Everyone does it. FJB. Butter emails. Dijon mustard. Checkmate, libtards.
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Oh, okay.canpakes wrote: ↑Sun May 11, 2025 1:16 amNo, Bret. That was disinformation.Bret Ripley wrote: ↑Sat May 10, 2025 9:14 pmIt seems weird that anyone needs to be reminded that he orchestrated a plan to ignore the results of an election. Literally. You may have seen something about it -- it was in all the papers for a while.
Gosh, it almost sounds like democracy is at stake. Damn, there's just no escaping this TDS.And it doesn’t matter anyway, because both sides do it.