Exciting news, everyone! This week, ACCCE members Arch Coal, Peabody
Energy, Southern Company, American Electric Power and Luminant partnered
up with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Carbon Capture Center,
a public-private partnership advancing the next generation of carbon
capture and storage (CCS) technologies.
The nation's best scientists and technology experts will come together
to help advance large-scale CCS operations. The new center will allow
these folks to work on CCS in a real power plant setting, at a size
large enough to provide meaningful performance data under real operating
conditions to enable scale-up of the technologies.
The center, located at the Power Systems Development Facility in
Birmingham, Ala., should be fully operational by 2010.
"As a partner in the National Carbon Capture Center, we will help drive
new energy technologies that will allow the United States to meet both
its environmental and economic goals," said Steven F. Leer, Arch Coal's
chairman and CEO. "We look forward to working alongside foremost energy
experts to unlock a cleaner energy future for our planet."
We're with you on that one, chairman. We're excited to see the
real-world results taking place.
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I think coal is a way of saving as well as clean air.I am all for it.GO COAL
I live in kentucky,and i KNOW clean coal is a lie.see for yourself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPixjCneseE
Clean coal is coming, and cleaning up after coal is getting better too. A future WV company wants to help save 50% on a coal companies power bill and use Co2 from natural gas gen-sets to fast grow trees to replant on old mine sites. Showalter Micropower wants to help save power and give the trees (for free) to help the mine reclaim the land.
Clean coal is in the works and on the way.