Clean Coal Projects Fail

With growing concerns about climate change,
. . . there is renewed pressure to restrict use of coal,
. . . a major source of power generation in many countries.
Yale project on Climate Change, shows Temperature Rising almost Everywhere.

Coal lobby, concerned about longer-term prospects of the fuel,
. . . has pinned its hopes and future on the so-called clean-coal,
. . . no one can say for sure what it is,
. . . but the idea is to turn coal into an acceptable fuel,
. . . by limiting or eliminating its nasty side effects,
. . . reducing emissions of SOx, NOx, Mercury, Arsenic, fly ash, and
. . . ultimately capturing some or most of the CO2 during the combustion process.

May 2015, South Mississippi Electric (SME), an electric cooperative,
. . .  announced that it was pulling out of one of the few promising CCS projects,
. . . citing delays in schedule and increased costs,
. . . from $2.2 billion, to $6.1 billion.

06-30-2015 Source:  Clean Coal projects Fail