Cleaner Coal Is Attracting Some Doubts

"Within the next few years, power companies are planning to build about 150 coal plants to meet growing electricity demands. Despite expectations that globalwarming rules are coming, almost none of the plants will be built to capture the thousands of tons of carbon dioxide that burning coal spews into the atmosphere.

Environmentalists are worried, but they put their faith in a technology that gasifies the coal before burning. Such plants are designed, they say, to be more adaptable to separating the carbon and storing it underground.

Most utility officials counter that the gasification approach is more expensive and less reliable, but they say there is no need to worry because their tried-and-true method, known as pulverized coal, can also be equipped later with hardware to capture the globalwarming gas.

But now, influential technical experts are casting doubts on both approaches."

Source: The New York Times

Seriously, why would anyone want to build 150 coal plants? I realise some people don't think the threat of globalwarming is real, but this is just ridicolous. Anyone with half a brain would abandon these plans.