unicorns that fart rainbows, pee lemonade and poop chocolate candy.

Diamonds are very clean coal, in fact sparkly clean.

If it isn't his specifically, it's of his example.

and the CO2 is injected into an underground formation.

It's still in the theoretical phase, like fusion.

after you scrub it.


Say you manage to get all the SO2 and NO3 out of the stack, then you have it in some semi-solidified form on the ground. Say you collect all the heavy metals Strontium, Radium, Mercury, perhaps in the flyash, what do you do with this toxic and somewhat radioactive stuff. You can use a little bit in asphalt, but not enough to dispose of it.

FGD (flue gas desulfurization) sludge is some interesting stuff. It smells like hell and left alone will eat its way through a steel bucket.

(been there done that)

...jumbo shrimp, military intelligence, and live on tape.

In reality coal causes huge amounts of C02, toxins, and carcinogens to be released. There are cancer clusters around coal power plants all over the US, not to mention the environmental disaster of mining coal. Because coal is so inherently dirty and has a very low energy density in terms of kWh/ton of fuel there isn't much that can be done to clean it up.

early 50s? I was very, very young, but remember it well. I couldn't walk around the apartment barefoot. My feet were black. I remember always washing my feet. Even walking around NYC back then, my feet in sandals, and bottoms of my shoes, were always filthy. My Mom was CONSTANTLY mopping floors, telling us to take off our shoes before we came inside.

Clean coal? I don't remember that.

against "clean coal".
He said it in front of some coal miners in Ohio. I thought I noticed some smiling miners.

While I don't claim to be an expert, I am old enough to remember miners dying from "black lung" disease. Clean coal? Just given my childhood experiences with a coal stove, I would have to say no such thing.

...other than that it is complete bullshit...