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Ready4Change

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Tue Oct-12-04 07:35 PM
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16. If coal is used as a carbon source

As your formula states it, it looks clean. However, coal is more than just carbon. What happens to all the other chemicals that are part of coal in the process? Are they burnt away and sent out a smoke stack? Mixed with excess steam cooled into water to be filtered (or not?) Dryed compounds? Do they have uses, are are they a waste material we need to get rid of somehow?

Not nay saying the idea, just wondering (from a non chemists viewpoint) what the pluses and minuses of this process are. Thanks.

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