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stg81

(351 posts) Tue Feb 11, 2014, 06:39 PM Feb 2014

But I thought the commercial said it was Clean Coal?

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But I thought the commercial said it was Clean Coal? (Original Post) stg81 Feb 2014 OP

Sure it is! Just not at all stages of its existence! See, it's all good! n/t freshwest Feb 2014 #1

Black is the new White Blue Owl Feb 2014 #2

toxic water is the new clean! stg81 Feb 2014 #4

Take this from someone who had to stoke a coal furnace tech3149 Feb 2014 #3

freshwest

(53,661 posts)

1. Sure it is! Just not at all stages of its existence! See, it's all good! n/t

Reply to stg81 (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2014, 06:42 PM

Feb 2014

Blue Owl

(50,507 posts)

2. Black is the new White

Reply to stg81 (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2014, 06:45 PM

Feb 2014

Down is the new Up. Thanks to big energy and their back-pocket M$M, money trumps a healthy, pollution-free environment...

stg81

(351 posts)

4. toxic water is the new clean!

Reply to Blue Owl (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 11, 2014, 07:10 PM

Feb 2014

tech3149

(4,452 posts)

3. Take this from someone who had to stoke a coal furnace

Reply to stg81 (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2014, 07:05 PM

Feb 2014

I grew up in an old coal town. My grandfather worked for the mine till it closed in 1932.
I spent my childhood shoveling coal and coal ash and stoking the furnace before going to bed.
There has not ever or ever will there be anything resembling "clean coal"
Every action to obtain, process, use, and dispose of the waste is either poisonous or deadly.
We might have gotten away with it when the worldwide population was a billion or so but we can't get away with it anymore.

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