Comments on: What is more dangerous, coal energy or nuclear energy?

By: Zach Hudson

Zach Hudson — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:24:35 +0000

Neither coal nor nuclear are perfect sources of energy. The point of this article is to simply make people aware of the fact that coal is a dangerous, unhealthy source of energy. I find that many people in the general public look at nuclear energy with a sense of fright, while many look at coal power as a little dirty but not a big deal. Hopefully, someone read this and now sees that coal, the common electricity producer, is not harmless and that nuclear energy, not harmless either, is not enormously evil in comparison to coal.

By: gowthaman from canada

gowthaman from canada — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:38:38 +0000

coal is a fossil fuel it causes global warming it is very bad for our health. nuclear is a very dangerous source of energy .which one is more dangerous? why?

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By: Zach Hudson

Zach Hudson — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:33:11 +0000

Barry:

I agree that using coal is going to continue and needs to continue. The point of this article is not to suggest halting the use of coal completely. What I am suggesting that we starting treating coal ash like it isn’t harmless, because it is. Also I do suggest that when building new power plants that coal not be the default choice. There are plenty of other options that can work. (It all depends on the situation and location).

Gasification does promise some very good things. It doesn’t seem to solve the major problems that I mentioned in my article. You still will have heavy metal pollution and you will still get some sort of ash or slag substance (from what I read this depends on the type of system used). The other thing to keep in mind is there are very few gasification-based plants in the world. I don’t know that we will get much concrete data about the actually benefits of gasification until it is more widely used.

Either way, we will see, I hope gasification can keep its promises.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080215135731.htm

By: Clean Coal Energy

Clean Coal Energy — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:56:04 +0000

You have provided many processes for under ground gasification..thanks for your information.

By: Barry

Barry — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:09:59 +0000

While I agree that the definition of “clean coal” is very broad I think it’s important that people understand what is possible with coal and new technology.

http://zeep.com/zeep-technology/gasification-vs-combustion.php

There is modern gasification technology that will revolutionize the way the world processes coal. Coal represents 67% of the world’s energy reserves and is most abundant in the largest developing nations with the highest energy demands. Not only does it make sense to continue to use coal, with new technology, it would be irresponsible not to.