Activity 3.2.2.2 Clean Coal? Myth or Reality.
Clean Coal? Myth or Reality
My thesis
My thesis to rather there is actual clean coal I don't believe there is such a thing. Coal itself is a fossil fuel that is basically a blackish rock the was carbonized plants that we find underground that we burn to gain energy. It states that there's an exact thing called clean coal and for what it's used for is to help limit the global warming and I can print this evidence by looking in the article which it states, "It deliberately vague meaning coal plant captures the carbon dioxide emitted from the smokestack and bury it underground as a way to limit global warming,"(Plumer,2017) As beneficial it would be for having an actual clean coal, I don't think it matters because it'll still be non-renewable.
Result
What I found interesting was when they were using this technology to take out the carbon dioxide (CO2) from the ground, its known to be a complex machine that one minor issue can cost over millions and that this technology is so new it considered an infect project. There seems to be only 1 open in Texas and that thanks to the Obama Administration giving the company 190 million dollars. As I see the information from the articles, from the information that I've read it helped me prove the clean coal would be a nice thing but it's not a real thing and then if anything it's just cold with wet better quality. Many politics used the term clean coal to try to tell the people that there is a potential substance that help the people with global issues, for example in the article it mentions that it could "Highly efficient coal plant that don't use carbon capture" (Plumer,2017)
In the article of Column: what does "Clean Coal" and can it clean the Planet? It starts out on how coal is form and what it is made of " An ancient wetland was also quite good and concentration and trace and toxic element"(Bernhardt,2017) "while going through the article it says that merely ejection CO2 underground is no guarantee, but the gas will stay put". The reason I picked this article because it also explains how the clean would be beneficial for the community because it will get out less pollution and more fresh air, but it still goes on to say that it's just regular cold and that once you burn it just puts a toxic gas and makes it a pollution to the atmosphere. It also goes on saying how we were able to solve one issue which was inhaling so much toxin from the coal but at the same time we did create a new problem that reduces to acid rain in many areas that became global. They then confirmed that there are dirty truths. about the clean coal stating that that this requires more of a larger quality of coal combinations resides " The trace metals sulfur and carbon dioxide that are not being emitted in the atmosphere had to be disposed of. We have Reduce regional acid rains problems throughout the concentration of coal waste into the metal of trace element". (Berhardt,2017) This part was interesting because it actually went into detail about how there is a con to coal cleaning and how it worked and how it affects us. It also mentions how instead of them actually solving the problem, what they're doing is that they're delaying the issues and that they keep them having new ways to deal with the waste that is being contained and that it's not even guaranteed. It later mentions about the cold saying " It has nothing at all to do with the pollution associated with extracting coal from the ground" this part I thought it was interesting because researchers talk about how the coal on its location how it's formed, but it is really mentioning how it's actually working just how they keep on finding new ways to make it And how it's not really doing anything for the pollution.
Final thought
Overall, after reading both of these articles, I can say that Queen Cole would be nice if it actually did exist that overall, it seems that even though they are trying to make it it's not a thing and if anything it's either causing more pollution or delaying it.
websites
Column: What does ‘clean coal’ mean and can it save the planet? (2017, June 15). PBS News. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/column-clean-coal-mean-can-save-planet#:~:text=The%20phrase%20%E2%80%98clean%20coal%E2%80%99%20appears%20regularly%20in%20the
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