$350M grant awarded for 'clean' Texas coal plant

PapaG · #1 (**permalink**) 12-06-2009, 01:22 PM

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...s/6755018.html

ODESSA, Texas — The federal Department of Energy has awarded a $350 million grant to a company that plans to build a more environmentally friendly coal-fired plant in West Texas.

Summit Texas Clean Energy LLC of Bainbridge Island, Wash., is pitching a $1.7 billion plant capable of producing 400 megawatts, enough to power 400,000 homes.

bonedoc33 · #2 (**permalink**) 12-06-2009, 03:01 PM

Clean coal, huh? There's a contradiction in terms. How bout building some nuclear plants instead? Now THAT is clean power.

Gsmagnum · #3 (**permalink**) 12-06-2009, 09:46 PM

With scrubbers, coal is plenty clean.
CO2 is not a bad thing.
Nuclear is fine if they would pull the Jimmy limit off and finish Yucca Mountain.