When Should We End The Sale of Gas Vehicles, and coal power plants?

[Desk trauma]

Scrubbing carbon emissions from air at the time of consumption and restoring it to the earth from whence it came is hardly a threat.

We do not currently have the technology to do that.

If we are comparing atmospheric emission coal loses by default as nuclear plants have zero harmful atmospheric emissions and none at all unless you count water vapor from the cooling towers.

What I was referring to was the physical byproducts of the plants operation which coal also loses handily. Coal combustion produces mountains of toxic ash that is poorly contained and often befouls the rivers around plants. Nuclear fission produces very little high level radioactive waste every last scrap of which is accounted for and monitored by armed guards 24/7.

 

[mark46]

Scrubbing carbon emissions from air at the time of consumption and restoring it to the earth from whence it came is hardly a threat.

The coal industry could have saved their industry had these technologies been their priorities.

 

[timothyu]

We do not currently have the technology to do that.

We've been doing it for years here.

 

[Desk trauma]

We've been doing it for years here.

Do tell.

 

[timothyu]

New tech (rather than to reduce current systems CO2 emissions a further 40%) NET Power - Making Clean Cheaper Than Dirty | Zero Emissions. Lower Costs. Global Solution.

 

[Desk trauma]

New tech (rather than to reduce current systems CO2 emissions a further 40%) NET Power - Making Clean Cheaper Than Dirty | Zero Emissions. Lower Costs. Global Solution.

Ah, by doing it for years you meant there has been a test project for two years.

 

[timothyu]

Ah, by doing it for years you meant there has been a test project for two years.

No, I just threw in the newest option

 

[Vylo]

New tech (rather than to reduce current systems CO2 emissions a further 40%) NET Power - Making Clean Cheaper Than Dirty | Zero Emissions. Lower Costs. Global Solution.

It's simply not worthwhile. You can get better results from natural gas, cheaper, with less risk. Coal is dying, rapidly. Nothing can save it, nor should anything bother.