Dave Roberts at Grist just reported on this ginormous story. The Department of Energy has just announced that they are pulling the plug on the proposed Future-Gen test plant in Illinois. Future-Gen is all about 'clean coal'. And the biggest arguments from clean coal's supporters is that it coal is cheap. Why was Future-Gen shelved? It is too expensive! Where is 'clean coal' now?
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January 29, 2008
Dept.of Energy Pulls Support for Future-Gen and 'Clean Coal' Project
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Timothy B. Hurst
Tags coal, enegy politics
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