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[quote user="DSchmitt"] <IMG src="http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/graphics/colhdr1.gif"> <A href="http://www.kgoam810.com/goout.asp?u=http://www.ornl.gov/ORNLReview/rev26-34/text/colmain.html">http://www.kgoam810.com/goout.asp?u=http://www.ornl.gov/ORNLReview/rev26-34/text/colmain.html</A> from the article: "Partly because of these concerns about radioactivity and the cost of containing it, the American public and electric utilities have preferred coal combustion as a power source. Today 52% of the capacity for generating electricity in the United States is fueled by coal, compared with 14.8% for nuclear energy. Although there are economic justifications for this preference, it is surprising for two reasons. First, coal combustion produces carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that are suspected to cause climatic warming, and it is a source of sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides, which are harmful to human health and may be largely responsible for acid rain. Second, although not as well known, releases from coal combustion contain naturally occurring radioactive materials--mainly, uranium and thorium." [/quote] Don't sweat the anthropogenic climate change claims, our nation has more important survival battles to address, energy independence being the most critical economic battle we face.  Anything that reduces the need to import energy from potentially unfriendly nations while at the same time addressing the need for energy is a good thing.  The more coal fired power plants, coal fired biofuels refineries, coal liquification plants, etc. we can get built and running, the better off we'll be.
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