On the Road with Clean Coal

Plug-in hybrid cars very well may be the future of the automobile industry. Just the other morning, Honda announced that it will have a new low-cost hybrid in its 2009 vehicle lineup.

Coincidentally, a great editorial titled “Clean coal will power electric cars” ran in the Des Moines Register on the same day. And the author is right.

As it stands today, coal would provide more than 50 percent of the power that plug-in hybrid cars run on. And as we’ve said here before, that’s great news for all Americans.

Why? By relying more on domestic coal and less on imported oil, we’re greatly increasing America’s energy security.

Plus … if the plug-in hybrid’s electricity can be produced utilizing CCT and carbon sequestration, we can also greatly reduce the greenhouse gases that are currently being released into the atmosphere by every car on the highway without increasing emissions in the utilities sector.

It’s going to take every resource we’ve got to solve our climate and energy puzzle, so let’s hit the road and keep looking for solutions.

Comments

[hebintn]

Regarding "clean coal". There is no such thing as clean coal. I don't care how much you clean up the emissions from combustion of coal. Go to West Virginia and look at the horror of mountain top removal. Look and the water quality of the streams near coal operations. Then talk to me about clean coal. My beautiful Appalachian mountains are being converted into dead moonscapes. Take your clean coal and stick it.