ApocaDocs: Tenn. Sludge Spill Challenges 'Clean Coal' Future

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Posted Fri Dec 26 2008: from Discovery Channel:


	Tenn. Sludge Spill Challenges 'Clean Coal' Future http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1230303007 When an earthen wall holding back 525 million gallons of ash slurry gave way at the coal-fired Kingston Fossil Plant in Tennessee in the wee hours of Monday morning, the resultant flood ruined a picturesque rural landscape, inundated more than a dozen houses, and blanketed as much as 400 acres of land with potentially toxic muck.... But the mud has done much more than just sully a countryside. Americans' energy consumption habits are a top-tier political issue, and as we look for new ways to curtail global warming, wean ourselves from oil, and find sources of clean energy, coal's role is still unclear. So the accident raises a serious question: Is there such a thing as "clean coal"?

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