Dirty Coal Has Left the Building
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(Blog Post) ...marchers are gathering in the park just to the south of the Capitol, a few blocks from the Capitol Power Plant....chanting "Clean Coal is a Dirty Lie,"... It's an energetic crowd, on a very windy and cold day, though the sun keeps attempting to break through... Carl "Pete" Ramey, a great-grandfather from Wise County, Virginia, and VFW chaplain, who spent 37 years laboring in an underground mine, has just read an opening prayer: "Is faith asleep? Let it ... Full Story »
Posted by Beth Wellington
While Pelosi and Reid announced that the acting Architect of the Capitol will be looking into a conversion to natural gas, this is not the ideal solution for several reasons. NG is also a fossil fuel, in limited supply which emits carbon (although less than coal) and has its own set of problems involved in its drilling and transportation. Also, a change to NG requires retrofitting. If we're going to the expense, why not model options such as demand reduction, solar hot water and geothermal? I also linked to a fact sheet on liquefied natural gas, which is footnoted with sources. I also have a March 2 article by NewsTrust member Christopher Mims on geothermal from from SciAm.