Now that FutureGen (a public-private partnership to construct the world’s first near-zero emissions coal-based power plant) is on its way to getting the funding it needs, it seems like just about everybody is talking about clean coal technology (our clean coal Twitter feed is going crazy!).
Check out some of the things officials on both sides of the aisle have said this month about clean coal technology:
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) “About 50% of electricity generated in the United States is generated by coal and a lot of it in the south. We’re leaders in clean coal technology. Mississippi power company, a subsidiary of southern company, has in permitting right now an IGCC, that is a coal gasification plant where they would take Mississippi coal, turn it into gas, burn the gas, but then they would capture the carbon. And sequester by putting it in the ground just to store it, but by using it for recover arrive oil. Something we’re already doing.”
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana) “Coal is probably used more around the world than even oil and gas for the production of electricity. … So the strategy is to clean coal and to expand clean natural gas drilling…and then promote alternative fuels.”
And remember, you don’t have to be a big-time official join the conversation about clean coal technology — @reply us at AmericasPower on Twitter and let us know what you think about FutureGen and clean coal technology (CCT).