New Ad for Clean Coal

A lot of people probably think I just like to talk through my @ss so allow me to clarify this through experience.

I lived 42 years of my life in the Ohio River Valley between the Bruce Mansfield and Sammis COAL plants. One plant was 20 miles NORTH of me and the OTHER was 20 miles SOUTH of me, and BOTH belched TONS of GHG and pollutants into the air. No amount of scrubbing helped.

From 1979 to 1982 I worked for Colt Industries at their Crucible Steel works in Midland PA. Most of us did as that is how we made our living. My father worked there for 44 years. He died from mesothelioma. The 'coke' plant at the mill put at LEAST 163 different carcinogens into the air.

Across from East Liverpool Ohio where we lived, Quaker State Refinery in WVA also belched carcinogens into the air.

And let's NOT forget the Beaver Valley One & Two Nuclear plants that made Ohio River water so radioactive that it made a geiger counter spike. We drank that water.

I was born with a congenital birth defect, a prolapsed colon and suffered from Crohn's Disease for years until the defect was repaired at Cleveland Clinic. I also have an array of other physical problems.

So if you WANT to talk to somebody who LIVED through it then try ME!

There is no such thing as CLEAN DIRT!

Jan hit the nail on the head. The issue, as most of the time in America is cost. We have several viable alternatives, however, we do not invest in these technologies to make them less costly. Other countries have already caught on to this (let's go, Holland), but because certain interests are involved in the production and selling of our top sources of energy, oil, coal, etc, billions of dollars are being funneled into perpetuating that we can still use these sources of energy with less detrimental effects. It seems like it's going to on us, the people, to disseminate the truth, and implement alternative solutions on our own. Big business simply cannot be trusted.

Clean coal is a theory, and that is all it is...there are NO practical applications anywhere.

And probably never will be. There is NO way to trap GHG emissions and pollutants that come from anthracite and bituminous 'high sulfur' coal.

High sulfur coal when burned or processed into 'coke' for steel manufacturing causes 'acid rain' as well that destroys statues, buildings, and historic monuments.

There is NO clean 'burning' of ANYTHING!

At least NOT in this world that I know of.

Solar must have parity with coal in cost per watt. It is getting there and we must push government to stop subsidizing these dirty dangerous sources of energy and give people an affordable choice!

I have to admit that coal does play a major role in a Charlie Brown Christmas.

you guys should just turn your heaters, computers and lights off if your so against the use of coal.

But kudos on the commercial. I love the reality commercials.

coal is good to heat homes but not as a major power source.

i thought no coal was clean.......politicly speaking coal mineing has never been fun for the people that have to mine it. that alone has destroyed ecosystems around the world and created child slave labor in countrys you hear about but can do much about........ theres other solutions, there just not as profitable. except the clean renueable hypothetical energy.

Clean coal is 70% cleaner than regular coal and they are working toward zero em missions if Obama doesn't bankrupt them first. Half of our electricity comes from coal btw.

Hasn't the last 8 years been enough insanity? Now is the time for GREEN CHANGE. We have to make fossil fuels extinct ASAP. The sooner sustainable energy from the elements around us - solar, wind, water, thermal - are further developed, so will mankind's hope for the future.

the phrase 'clean coal' is hilarious to me. i live in Pennsylvania, the Saudi Arabia of coal, and I can tell you that there are not many substances on this earth that are dirtier than coal. and while an investment into the coal industry would be a great boon for my local economy, it wouldn't be worth it for its damage to the environment.

the phrase "clean coal" is like saying "healthy cancer"

both parties are lieing to people.
clean coal is lieing about "coal" being clean.
those against aren't relaying what "clean" actually is.
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investing in "clean coal" means finding an enviormentally sounds way of creating a fuel out of coal. It's possible.

So that is what the electric cars will run on. Hmmmm.

"clean coal" is an oxymoron

There is no simple solution that has no consequences. However there is one thing that we all can do and that is to consume less and well that means less jobs but then we won't need as much money right.

I say we turn off all the computers or limit them to one per household used only 1 hour a day to pay bills, read the news send emails (that cuts down on paper), same goes for the TV and every household instills game night when we all play board games that don't use electricity and maybe once a week movie night.

We all put on an extra blanket and turn down the thermostat to 60 winter and 80 in summer.

We buy only four pairs of shoes a year and they come from simple shoes stores. (2 sneakers 2 dress)

We all join a car pool or ride a bus to work. The car is used only once a week to run errands. Since the kids are staying home for game night, we take them out of all that running around to soccer, baseball practice etc unless they can walk to the field or they can drag out that bicycle for transportation.

We all turn into vegans so we don't need a refridgerator just a little ice box. (Our vegetables grown in our own back yard (with all our free tim and they won't spoil sitting on a shelf or we can can them ourselves).

We stop using items that require batteries so the landfill doesn't get clogged up which we would have to make an allowance for our cell phones but then we promise not to buy the next new model every year and throw the old one away. And oh we can all go back to cloth diapers so the pampers aren't there as well. No more bottled water, we just put the tap water into reusable containers but not styrofoam.

Jeez we'd be solving a whole host of problems, we'd be getting more exercise, eating better food, enjoying our families more and know what they were doing and listening to as well as helping the envirnoment. But then we'd be back in the 1970's without racial tensions and the war in vietnam oops they'd just be changed to gay rights tensions and the war in afghanstan-guess you can't have everything but we can dream.

What ever happened to truth in advertising? I guess you have to have an administration that is willing to get it's agencies to enforce it.

The people will accept innovation if you give it to them. To kill innovation and oppress it and then turn around and say how much you are willing to pay to change a situation that should had changed way back in the past, it seems to be an act of forceable exploitation to me.

The problem is the anti-advertising isn't telling people what they want to hear. They just want their lights to work at the lowest possible price, unless you package an immediate painful consequence to their perception, they will tend to just choose to ignore the problem until it will no longer ignore them.

Let's implement a "truthful free speech" initiative that will wipe out such problems along with a lot of other bullsh*t in one fell swoop.

Here is the truth about what's going on. He is how much it costs. Here is how much it costs you. Here are your other options. Here are the pros and cons should you be willing to choose to pay for it.

Any questions?

Doesn't do any harm Just like the cigarette companies.

WOW, after 10 years of screaming and fighting against this "friends of coal " propoganda campaign , finally an ad that tells the truth. ROCK ON REALITY! Sad that it is already to late for 41 counties in Appalachia.

Agreed, write him at
http://change.gov
and tell him you don't want any more coal power.

Yes, let's not let obama put any of his focus into implementing this "clean coal" crap.

And I thought a brown nose was bad...

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www.thisisreality.org