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Saturday, June 25, 2011

A Clean Way to Use the United States Abundant Coal Reserves

A Clean Way to Use the United States Abundant Coal Reserves

The US has roughly 1 trillion barrels of oil equivalent in coal resources, or more. It has twice that amount in kerogen resources, but we are looking at coal specifically. The challenge has been to find ways to burn this massive coal resource cleanly, so as to provide abundant and inexpensive electrical power and heat to what should have been a healthy economy if not for a government policy of planned energy starvation.
Gigatons of Coal
Proven Coal Reserves
Georgia Tech. researchers have
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