Clean Coal Innovators
Posted by Joe Lucas on 10/22/2009 01:00:00 PM
National Communications Director Steve Gates recently visited the 2009 Gasification Technologies Conference as part of the America’s Power℠ Factuality Tour. The following is his final dispatch from the event.
It’s been written many times on this blog that we’re confident the continued development and deployment of advanced clean coal technologies will help usher our country into a clean energy future. One reason we’re so confident of that is because we meet people all the time who are working on innovative projects to generate electricity from coal in increasingly clean ways.
Of course, the Factuality Tour has been a great way to get to know a lot of these innovators – especially this stop at the Gasification Technologies Conference in Colorado Springs. It’s literally stuffed full of people thinking outside the box.
One of those people is Don Montgomery of the Nanomaterials Discovery Corporation. Check out our video interview to hear Don explain how we can use coal and fuel cells to generate electricity with no CO2 emissions.
He showed us a unique generation process that involves turning coal into alcohol and then running that alcohol through a fuel cell to create electricity. In addition, the process creates vinegar as a byproduct that can be bought and sold as a commodity.
That’s all well and good, but this technology has an even bigger upside: it generates electricity using coal without producing any CO2.
