Do our local scientists and engineers at our world-class Case Western Reserve University, which is heated by very dirty coal-burning, believe coal is already clean?

None of them seem opposed to burning coal, and the pollution, for their personal profit and benefit.

Perhaps Cleveland leaders and scientists and engineers are not well educated about pollution and public health. Or, perhaps they are too conflicted by local energy politics and greed to speak truthfully.

YouTube may enlighten them and any misinformed Case students - thanks Eternity.

Keep our education about dirty coal coming...

Disrupt IT

I believe coal is already clean, even if you scrub it down to sub-atomic particles. The problem has always been burning it. Fire, that darn fire. You just can't get the fire hot enough to burn up the smoke too. I know, suspend it in a liquid or a gas. We'll grind it up, pulverized into minute particles and shoot it into a white hot whatever. How much energy to consume energy while extracting energy? Maybe if you nuked the coal!?!

Here's the plan we'll take the smoke and put it under ground with co2 and any other gas residue. Can't we just let go of burning rocks for profit?

We should take our coal and layer it with our garbage and fill in a portion of the Grand Canyon or the Badlands, let it settle for a million years, and let the gas companies siphon off the natural gas. We could build some mountain wind breaks in the Great Plains states.

How can we keep promoting our so-called natural beauty and ship our garbage to places that are twice as beautiful, all because we don't live there.

If you throw enough money and minds at coal, someday we will make it work. After all gasoline was a residue of oil processing, look what we did with that! There is no alchemy folks coal is clean if you don't burn it.

Education does not change reality in this case. If you could grow coal perhaps you could genetically alter it to be cleaner after you set it on fire. Coal has already gone through its organic process a million years ago, it is what it is.

Let's take another example of burning rocks, vulcanoes. Do you know of any "clean" vulcanoes? They spit out horrible plumes of smoke and ash. If they were more common our atmosphere would be in constant danger. Now we have harnested the power of vulcanoes in miniature containment units all over the earth, to make energy and steel, hamburgers, etc., and our atmosphere is in danger. Gee, how easily we justify the use because we need the end product, the heck with the garbage. We'll ask our kids to take out the garbage.

Men, educated and the idiots all become drunk seeking to turn LEAD into GOLD. The lead poisons their minds while the draw of gold fuels their motives. All because someone with education said turning COAL into CLEAN COAL is possible.  Issac Newton the Alchemist was Dr. Jekyll, a brilliant man, Mr. Hyde, a sick man.

We all need to step out of the stone age or burning rocks age and stand upright. Perhaps raw limitless power is found elsewhere. Maybe harnessing tornadoes, or lightning bolts. Maybe to passively generate power is OK and we are addicted to pyrotechnics and machinery, noise, the outward show of power.

Someone said "can we better use what we already are using? That way we don't have to change anything!" (a very common thought!) Do we wean ourselves or go cold turkey?

Maybe it's not coal but fire is the problem, that darn fire, just can't get it hot enough. We'll need the power of the sun to do this thing right. Folks, we have harnessed the power of the sun without burning rocks, the solar cell, please come out of the stone age!!