In the latest chapter of the just-as-toxic clean coal saga, there was a recent announcement of a large liquid coal plant to be built in Mingo County. TransGas Development Systems to Build $3B CTL Plant in West Virginia; 6.5M Barrels of Gasoline Per Year
I'm still trying to figure out exactly how (or if) they plan to sequester CO2. Also, there's no details on where the waste by-products will go either.
The fancy slide show on the company makes it sound like every bit of toxic stuff in coal can be repackaged as a valuable commercial product. Somehow, I'm a wee bit skeptical about that, too.
For all the sound and fury from Clean Coal advocates, it is worth noting this project is a real loser for job creation. At $3,000,000,000 spent, it will only generate 200 permanent jobs in West Virginia after it goes online in half a decade.
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