Can Coal be Kleaner?
Coal Stack 
Publically traded newco KFx is refining a process to make its patented K-Fuel®, the result of transforming sub-bituminous coal and lignite into "clean, affordable, efficient energy supplies."
In addition to water, the process removes mercury, SO2 and NOX. AEman notes one compound the KFx web-site and the annual report fails to discuss in any detail in C02 - the primary culprit in human-induced climate change. At first blush it appears coal can be made cleaner in some important ways, but deep down it's still going to be coal, and coal is carbon and carbon is the C in CO2.
Still, KFx is an spritely innovator in an industry of dinosaurs and deserves its day in court (metaphor violation - sorry). Keep an eye on them.
posted by Andy Bochman at 10:12 PM
 
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