http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/04/17/abec-new-name/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:42:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/04/17/abec-new-name/comment-page-1/#comment-694 williamf Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:08:00 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/04/17/abec-new-name/#comment-694 The term clean coal is interesting but I'm sure it's misleading. Based on my experience with coal it's anything but clean. When I was a child my grandfather heated his home with coal. He would get coal from a company that delivered by truck. The delivery man would pull a shute off his truck and set it up so that it would go through a basement window and drop the coal from the truck down the shute into a bin in the basement. Grandpa would shovel the stuff into a coal furnace, shovel after shovel. The coal dust was horrible. h I'm no environmental expert but I'm quite convinced, after this experience of living with grandpa and watching this process, that coal is the worst thing we could do to our environment. But to those who are selling coal I'd like to know what "exactly" they mean by clean coal. The term clean coal is interesting but I’m sure it’s misleading. Based on my experience with coal it’s anything but clean. When I was a child my grandfather heated his home with coal. He would get coal from a company that delivered by truck. The delivery man would pull a shute off his truck and set it up so that it would go through a basement window and drop the coal from the truck down the shute into a bin in the basement. Grandpa would shovel the stuff into a coal furnace, shovel after shovel. The coal dust was horrible. h I’m no environmental expert but I’m quite convinced, after this experience of living with grandpa and watching this process, that coal is the worst thing we could do to our environment. But to those who are selling coal I’d like to know what “exactly” they mean by clean coal.

]]> http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/04/17/abec-new-name/comment-page-1/#comment-692 moondancer Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:55:11 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/04/17/abec-new-name/#comment-692 The "clean Coal" people have been showing up at campaign events in Pa passing out T-shirts, chatting people up. Kind of an oxymoron, clean coal. The “clean Coal” people have been showing up at campaign events in Pa passing out T-shirts, chatting people up. Kind of an oxymoron, clean coal.

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