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Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, historically at the center of US coal production, regularly hosts a meeting of the worlds' scientists and engineers who are dealing with coal's dirty details.

Those attending this year's 25th Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, focus "on environmental emissions issues and technologies surrounding the continued use of coal and the development of future coal-based energy plants to achieve near-zero emissions of pollutants, reduced costs, and high thermal efficiency while producing a suite of products to meet future energy market requirements." ...

The idea behind waste gasification is an attractive one: Take trash and subject it to extreme heat under anoxic conditions to produce syngas, a blend of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, which can be used as a fuel source. Despite its promise, its high operating costs and relative inefficiency had heretofore limited its applicability in most countries.

People are filling up our "You Can't Make Up Stuff Like This" file far too quickly; but this one just has to be posted.

Coal industry-hired PR agencies must have come to the realization that the "Clean Coal" mantra isn't working out as they'd planned. How else to explain advocates referring to a billion dollar coal gasification project as making "synthetic natural gas?" Reminds us of an old George Carlin routine from Saturday Night Live.

"The term Jumbo Shrimp has always amazed me. What is a Jumbo Shrimp? I mean, it's like Military Intelligence - ...

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Source: TreeHugger