is ‘clean coal’ a good idea?
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About the video: ‘is ‘clean coal’ a good idea?’
Chris Flavin acknowledges the need to clean up the global coal industry but does not see the process as being a full solution to climate change. Coal burning power stations should be allowed to bury CO2 underground. Ideally, all coal burning plants (accounting for around 35% of all electricity generated) should be retrofitted with the technology that would allow them to do this. But there are still unanswered questions as to the viability of ‘cleaner’ coal.
Total views: 1,878
Filmed: San Francisco, USA on 15 November 2005
Credits: Interviewer - Marcus Morrell Camera and Editor - Marcus Morrell
Copyright © 2005 Big Picture TV
About Christopher Flavin
Chris Flavin is the President of the Worldwatch Institute, an independent research organization based in Washington, DC. He is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Business Council for Sustainable Energy and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Energy and Environmental Systems, the Climate Institute, and the Environmental and Energy Study Institute.
He is co-author of three books on energy, including “Power Surge: Guide to the Coming Energy Revolution”, which anticipated many of the changes now under way in world energy markets.
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