ACCCE on the radio

I was a guest on Mickelson in the Morning on Iowa’s WHO Radio the other day.

You can use the player below to listen to Jan Mickelson and I talk about President Obama’s energy policy, the importance of affordable electricity and other aspects of America’s energy debate.

Comments

[Richard Tucker]

Clean coal is a pipe dream and is distracting from the real green energies of wind, wave and solar which need the start up investment now. Coal has always been profitable but hasn't reinvested for the carbon neutral future and now wants government to finance their own folly. You won't post this comment anyway but I hope your pay covers your conscience.

[Megan from ACCCE]

Richard:

On the contrary, over the last 35 years, America's coal-based electricity providers have invested more than $50 billion in technologies that reduce emissions. Those technologies have made today's coal-based generating fleet 77 percent cleaner in terms of emissions currently regulated under existing Clean Air Act programs per unit of energy produced.

Public-private partnerships have been historically successful in the clean coal technology arena, and we're excited that President Obama and members of his administration continually affirm their support for the next generation of clean coal technologies, including carbon capture and storage.

[Phillip K Notz]

We've been injecting CO2 into petroleum reservoirs for 30 years so sequestering is proven technology. It pipelines to get the CO2 from the power plants will be expensive,but it can be done. Another big challenge is separating the nitrogen from the flue gas. We can avoid this by burning the coal with oxygen (separated from air). They can either modify the power plants to run at higher temperatures or recycle some of the CO2 to keep the temperature down.