The Future of Clean Coal

Energy - 2008

The Future of Clean Coal

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When it was first announced in 2003, FutureGen was billed as a $1 billion prototype for the coal-burning power plant of the future, combining electricity and hydrogen production with the near elimination of harmful emissions. So the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) decision late last month to back out of the project, which was meant to build an advanced coal-gasification plant designed to sequester its carbon dioxide emissions underground, is once again fueling debate over the future of clean-coal technology in the United States. Some energy-policy analysts say that technology development and changing priorities have simply made FutureGen obsolete and that financing carbon-capture equipment at commercial power plants could actually accelerate the implementation of the clean-coal vision that FutureGen once represented, while others say that the decision better reflects US budgetary issues than anything else.

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