[LINK] Clean Coal

[Jan Whitaker]

At 09:52 AM 16/06/2012, Frank O'Connor wrote:
>Call it 'carbon sequestration', call it 'carbon capture', call it 
>'clean coal' or whatever - you'd think that this trough at which the 
>industry feeds (basically as a means of coal industry PR rather than 
>anything substantive) would be shut down and the admission made that 
>burning coal cannot be done both cleanly and economically.

And given last night's trembler, I don't think we can be any more 
sanguine about it!


http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/carbon-capture-prompts-quake-risk-fear-20120619-20m3x.html
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A PROPOSED method of cutting harmful carbon emissions in the 
atmosphere by storing them underground risks causing earthquakes and 
is unlikely to succeed, a US study says.

The warning came in a Perspective article in the Proceedings of the 
National Academy of Sciences, just days after another independent US 
study warned that carbon capture and storage risked causing earthquakes.
"



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