Coen Brothers Direct New "Clean Coal" Ad
The Reality Campaign has released a new ad. They're the folks behind the widely-played ad that featured a foreman in a hard hat taking viewers on a tour of a non-existent clean coal facility.
In this new ad, a pitchman gives us the hard sell on a "Clean Coal Clean"-scented air freshener that works just as well as "clean coal."
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Coal supplies powers 50% of our electricity and is incredibly cheap and reliable, especially compared to windmills. The whole idea of "clean" or "dirty" is terribly muddled. New integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) are indeed very clean in terms of pollution. However the global warming fanatics have corrupted the language to make "clean" mean lack of carbon dioxide emissions. A further muddle is that if sequestration of CO2 were ever to be actually done, IGCC plants are the route to take because they can be configured to exhaust pure CO2 without huge volumes of nitrogen.