Watch the hippies heads explode - clean coal burning cars on the horizon
From
FOX News:
New technology could stoke clean coal-powered cars
New technological advances may make it possible in the near future to engineer a coal-powered car so clean that it produces nearly no polluting emissions, including carbon dioxide, experts tell FoxNews.com.
“There are many exciting possibilities for the clean coal technology,” says Liang-Shih Fan, a chemical engineer and director of Ohio State University’s Clean Coal Research Laboratory. “We found a way to release the heat from coal without burning it. This could be applicable for many industries.”
Fan last week disclosed that he had discovered a way to get the energy out of coal without burning it, using iron-oxide pellets as an oxygen source, and contain the reaction in a small chamber from which pollutants cannot escape. The only waste product would be water and solid coal ash -- no greenhouse gases. As an added benefit, the metal from the iron-oxide is recyclable.
I love it -- a bottle of iron ore, a bottle of coal dust and you are good to go. Your exhaust is recyclable. Processes like this have very large efficiencies of scale so I am not betting on the car but a large powerplant? Cleaner than Wind Turbines? True Baseload capacity? You bet!
Posted by DaveH at February 28, 2013 12:12 PM