Clean Coal: Myth, or Reality?

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🗓️ 30 April 2009

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Clean Coal: Myth, or Reality? S. Julio Friedmann, Carbon Management Program Leader, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Ray Lane, Managing Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Bruce Nilles, Director, Beyond Coal Campaign at Sierra Club Joe Lucas, Senior Vice President, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity Jeff Goodell, Author, Big Coal – Moderator Coal-fired power plants are the largest U.S. emitters of CO2 and human-generated mercury, yet our nation is poised to build many new coal plants in the future. Panelists will discuss new technologies for carbon capture and storage and IGCC, and the implications of energy policy decisions on the health of our economy and our planet. This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club on April 28, 2009 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6	Welcome to this podcast of Climate One at the Commonwealth Club. I'm Greg Dalton, founder of Climate One. Climate One brings
0:39.0	together thought leaders from around the world to advance solutions to global warming.
0:44.0	The Commonwealth Club is a non-profit, non-partisan forum open to the public. Join us online at
0:50.1	commonwealthclub.org. Good evening and welcome to tonight's meeting of the Commonwealth Club of California.
1:01.0	I'm Carol de Benedetto, a member of the club's environment and natural resources member led
1:05.0	forum and your chair for tonight.
1:08.0	Tonight's program, Clean Coal, Myth or Reality, is also part of the Climate One program series.
1:13.6	We also welcome our listeners on the radio, and we invite our audience to visit us online at commonwealth club.org.
1:20.6	It is my pleasure to introduce our moderator for this evening, Jeff Goodell, who will in turn introduce you to our distinguished
1:29.8	panelists here to discuss whether there's such a thing as clean coal.
1:35.1	Jeff Goodell's latest book, Big Coal, The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future, was chosen
1:40.4	as one of the best nonfiction books of 2007 by Kirkus Reviews.
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