Top 75 Best Blogs on Clean Coal

Hi there,
we fight for the same fundamental rights as you.
We're no coal citizens ("nocoke" movement) from Italy.

http://noalcarbone.blogspot.com

Thanks for your great job.

There is a strong need to build an international web of collaboration between free citizens
especially on the medical side, to share the most important informations to block the coal.

Take a look here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdv1ciQtMjg
and:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lorenzo.fortunati/BersaniEnelCarbone
(Enel is the bigger powerplants builder in Italy. Fundamentally, it's still a monopolist in the italian energy maket).

At present, our fight in the north of Lazio (the region in the centre of Italy where Rome is) is against the conversion of the big Enel's TVN (2 GW) from the old oil to the dirty coal. Our fight is based on legal ways (we've found violation of laws, health right, corruption, unscientific environmental valutation for the impact of the plant etc.), and we try to unite our forces in italian territory,

Coal still covers a quite small part of our energy mix, but politicians and lobbies want to bring the coal quote to 50% in the total. A suicide. We wanna support the development of renewable energies and energy saving technologies and lifestyles.

In our places there are many pollution sources:
Civitavecchia: Enel's TVN (reconverting to coal), TirrenoPower (turbogas)
Montalto di Castro (19 miles from Civitavecchia): Enel's & Edison's "Alessandro Volta" (turbogas). Plus an old nuclear plant never
Total: 7 Gwh
Plus the biggest turistic harbour of Mediterranean, still growing, and some near cement works.

But the mediatic power of energy lobbies is huge.

In the north of Italy (Porto Tolle), the coal conversion of a powerplant very similar to the one we're fighting against in Civitavecchia seems now blocked, thanks of the findings of laws breaking and the proximity to a natural reserve.
On Porto Tolle:
http://www.greenpeace.org/italy/news/portotolle

Check this out too:
http://www.bi-bigben.de/ (german)

BYE!!

Great list of blogs dealing with "clean coal".. Just wanted to mention Best Green Blogs which also has a good selection of green and sustainable themed blogs that deal with alternative energy many more similar green topics of interest to anyone interested in the health of the environment.

Is the one you're talking about? http://www.bestgreenblogs.com/

This comment is coming at you from blog number 67 on that list.

In case anyone ever makes it far enough down the list to find me, I just want to make sure I'm transparent. While I am critical of clean coal and skeptical of clean coal, I work for a venture investment firm, and one of our portfolio companies scrubs coal emissions for a living (NOX, SOX, mercury).

Maybe we're doing the wrong thing by channeling investment dollars into clean coal technologies, but I think of it as the practical thing to do. People are burning coal, and better to clean those emissions well than not to.

It's similar in its imperfect practicality, in my opinion, to providing clean needles to heroin addicts. It's not a real solution, but it prevents big problems from getting bigger.

Thanks for the guernsey in your list, Kevin. We absolutely must work together across the planet on this issue, and sharing these links is a great way of doing so.

Kevin,

Thanks for the link to my Blog at Samadhisoft. Much appreciated.

I would like to say that you probably linked to me on the strength of the piece I posted here:

http://samadhisoft.com/2008/06/15/mounting-costs-slow-the-push-for-clean...

This piece was pointing out that while most everyone would like to see 'clean coal' arrive, many of the current initiatives to demonstrate clean coal have faltered badly and, as Daniel M. Kammen, director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, “It’s a total mess.”

So, while I applaud the 'idea' of clean coal, I am skeptical of the 'reality' and will remain so until we see that it is more than just a PR distraction put forth by those invested in coal to confuse the public and maintain profits.

Cheers!

Dennis

I am not critical of genuinely clean coal, though I doubt that such a thing will ever exist. The whole life cycle of coal needs to be considered, from mine to smokestack, and both greenhouse gasses and other pollutants need to be taken into account.

I don't even doubt that clean coal is possible. I just suspect that it will be too costly for commercial deployment. Coal is only cheap when someone else is paying the costs associated with the pollution.

Out of curiosity, who is paying for this site?

Hi,I live in Eastern Kentucky,where Coal is King,I would like everyone to know,how dirty
the Coal is in communities where the coal is mined,Everyone talks about the polluion from coal fired plants,that to is nasty.I just want people to not forget about the people where the coal is mined.We have many coal trucks every day come down off the mountain tops down thur our neigborhoods,sometimes as many as 100 loads a day at times 5 and 6 days a week.My front door is nomore than 15 feet from the road these trucks travel to coal preparation plant where the coal is cleaned by chemicals that eventually end up in our streams late at night,when no one is so called inspecting.Cancer in Eastern Ky.is very high.Please go to the roots of before coal fired power plants,go to where it really begans,at the mines,and it's effect on communities,Please don't forget us when people talk about about coal fired plant being nasty to the enviroment,I'm telling you it is very bad on our health and enviroment.Everyone turn's a blind eye and deaf ear to what really is going from it's origin.As I began to talk about the coal trucks that pass by my home and the home's of many people,they track mud,rock dust and coal dust and blow deisel smoke thur our communities,all which causes many kind's of cancer,do a search on each one and see for your self,they cause many kind's of cancer,we have been exposed to this for many year's.The people at cleancoal.org are seeing the real coal minning.I have exhausted my self with contacting state and federal people about these issue's,I have tryed to get other people to get interested form other parts of the U.S.with no luck.The Kentuckian's for the Commonweath,is one group but they really don't get no immediate help,they try to change the laws for years all the time it gets worse and worse.Please get help to HighSplint and Closplint Kentucky
Publish more artical's on the origin of coal and it effects on the people and enviroment.
Thank You Chuck

What's new besides that? Do you have something new? Of course they don't care about the environment... they care about making a profit.

(www.gogreenmedium.com) The Reality Campaign is responsible for those clean coal commercials we've been seeing on TV about the clean coal air freshener. It's entertaining, but also clearing points out the just because you stamp the word 'clean' onto coal, doesn't make it clean. I didn't see it on your top 75 list. Of course I would like to make the list too. I have a green blogging site and posts talking about clean coal: http://www.gogreenmedium.com/?p=124, but even if I don't make the list I still appreciate you composing this for others to do their research and find the truth that's out there.

http://www.cleancoaltechnologiesinc.com/ Here is the Future of Clean Coal!