Your tax dollars at work: DOE to spend $950M for 250MW "clean coal" plant

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From the Randall Cunningham Memorial School of Energy, and the Halliburton School of Sandwich and Snack Economics, today's Wall Street Journal reports that the bankrupt United States Government plans to build, for $950M, a 250 MW coal plant that is advertised as providing for "clean coal."

Relying on general US ignorance of science the plant is advertised to provide fertilizers (from nitrogen oxides) and "soil enhancers" (sulfates, one supposes, hydrogen (from coal), oh yes, and CO2 that will be deep welled to "determine if it can be kept there indefinitely") since, according to the Wall Street Journal this gas is "thought" to be one of the major causes of global warming.


The plant, at 3.8 cents per watt, is so ridiculously priced as to even rival solar PV energy (generally reported, in solar "watts" as opposed to physicist watts) which comes in at just over 5 cents per "watt." (Caveat - solar PV plants have typical capacity loading that is much lower than any coal plant.)

Someone is going to great plunder from the treasury for this plant.

The concept of "clean coal," is a religious concept that is roughly comparable to the idea of the solar nirvana.

The Wall Street Journal does not provide free links, which is just as well, given that one really doesn't want to read this article anyway, not if one has no stomach for making things up if they don't agree with your fantasies.