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Originally Posted by Jackie S
It's amazing that we have more coal than the Middle East has oil, and our technology isn't geared toward making it burn cleaner and more efficient.
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Actually, our technology is geared that way.
It is just that there are limits to what technology can do. Our new coal plants are much cleaner than our old ones, but it is still a dirty technology that produces a lot of CO2 and particulate matter.
Natural gas is cleaner and, thanks to fracking, we have lots of that. So why not clamp down on coal and build gas plants instead?