Taylorville Illinois Energy Center, a proposed “clean coal” power plant. Image credit: Illinois Times Southern Illinois has vast, easily accessible coal reserves. That coal may be sulfurous and wet and salty; but ,Southern Illinois also has good geologic features for CO2 sequestration, plus Presidential root tendrils are there. These aspects explain, in a last-year kind of way, why Obama’s Energy Department supports this $3.5 billion fantasy. (Several major conceptual design changes have been made since the Bush Ad… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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"Clean Coal" Positioned To Be The High End Energy Product No One Can Afford
