Clean deadline call on coal power

Found on BBC News on Monday, 21 July 2008
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The government should set a deadline for coal-fired power stations to adopt "clean" technologies or close, according to a parliamentary committee.

A coal-fired station produces about twice as much carbon dioxide as a gas-burning facility of equal power.

The committee heard evidence that five or six other new coal-burning stations may be built in the UK by 2015.

The UK government believes - as do others - that the answer is "clean coal", particularly technologies which capture carbon from the flue gases and store it away in natural underground voids, perhaps under the sea bed.

What a great idea to invest money into an old-fashioned way to create energy instead of researching alternative methods and improve already existing technologies.