About the film:
In the digital age, half our electricity still comes from coal. Dirty Business reveals the true social and environmental costs of coal power and tells the stories of innovators who are pointing the way to an alternative energy future. Guided by Rolling Stone reporter Jeff Goodell, the film examines what it means to remain dependent on a 19th century technology that is the largest single source of greenhouse gases. Can coal really be made clean? Can renewables and efficiency be produced on a scale large enough to replace coal? The film seeks answers in a series of stories shot in China, Saskatchewan, Kansas, West Virginia, Nevada and New York. Read more here
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Clean coal is a big lie.
ReplyDeleteIf someone tells me there is such a thing then there must be fairies and leprechauns too.
Carbon Sequestration is the basis for the clean coal myth and AP has already abandoned this controversial and unproven technology at its Barry Plant that accounts for one half of all industrial pollution near Mobile.
Lies, more lies and damn lies.
Let's just continue to rip Alabama apart and blow the top of every mountain in the Appalachians to continue to feed China's dirty habit.
ReplyDeleteThat makes sense.
We have the technology for Free Energy now.
ReplyDeleteBig industry, coal and oil do not want you
to know.
The government does not want you to know.
The coal is dirty.
They do not want you to know.
We know.
Remember the tweet from the US Embassy about the air in Beijing that was the object of a USA Today story in November?
ReplyDeleteBEIJING (AP) — Pollution in Beijing was so bad Friday the U.S. Embassy, which has been independently monitoring air quality, ran out of conventional adjectives to describe it, at one point saying it was "crazy bad."
I cannot think of any logical reasons to continue to support China and its blatant disregard for air quality.
There is a picture with the USA Today story that shows how bad it is. It's what many American cities used to look like during the Industrial age before we put pollution standards in place.
What does Big Coal suggest we do? Go back to that? Or maybe the CSP, which I agree is completely unproven, is their only answer so that they can continue to justify their 19th century way of doing business.
See 12/22 Tuscaloosa News, http://bit.ly/fPy1E4,
ReplyDeleteAlbert Turner claims Perry County is in the market for lots more coal ash.