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Re:An Epidemic Is Killing Thousands of Coal Miners by stdplaceholder on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @10:48PM (#18712856)
There is no thermodynamically possible way to generate power from burning coal while also removing the primary product of the reaction from the effluent. Clean coal is, necessarily, 100% bullshit.
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Re:An Epidemic Is Killing Thousands of Coal Miners by fromthestart on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @11:27PM (#18713011)
That's not true at all. You can, for example, sequester it by injecting it into the earth.
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Re:An Epidemic Is Killing Thousands of Coal Miners by mrguyorama on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @11:15AM (#18716651)
By default you would then end up with less energy than you started with
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Re:An Epidemic Is Killing Thousands of Coal Miners by adrianN on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @11:50PM (#18713098)
I think the idea is not to turn the CO2 back into carbon and oxygen, but to store it somewhere other than the atmosphere. That is not thermodynamically impossible.
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Re:An Epidemic Is Killing Thousands of Coal Miners by avs733 on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @11:29PM (#18713018)
>Clean coal is, necessarily, 100% bullshit

Necessarily = chemically and thermodynamically

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