Politics | December 23, 2008 | 1 comment

Clean Coal? Flood of Sludge Disaster

source: http://www.wbir.com/video/default.aspx?aid=74330

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2.6 million cubic yards of sludge from a coal destroyed a neighborhood in Tennessee on Monday — enough to fill 798 Olympic-size swimming pools. Think there is such a thing as "clean coal?"-These residents might disagree.
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    • In 1998, Phytotech, along with Consolidated Growers and Processors (CGP) and the Ukraine's Institute of Bast Crops, planted industrial hemp, Cannabis sp., for the purpose of removing contaminants near the Chernobyl site. Cannabis is in the Cannabidaceae family and is valuable for its fiber, which is used in ropes and other products. This industrial variety of hemp, incidentally, has only trace amounts of THC, the chemical that produces the "high" in a plant of the same genus commonly known as marijuana.

      Overall, phytoremediation has great potential for cleaning up toxic metals, pesticides, solvents, gasoline, and explosives. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that more than 30,000 sites in the United States alone require hazardous waste treatment. Restoring these areas and their soil, as well as disposing of the wastes, are costly projects, but the costs are expected to be reduced drastically if plants provide the phytoremediation results everyone is hoping for.

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