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Fact Sheet: "Clean Coal" Power Plants
| Added by: | benjamin |
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| Added on: | July 25, 2009 |
| Attachment: | cleancoal.pdf (162.7 KB) |
Coal is the most CO2-intensive fossil fuel, emitting about 3 pounds of CO2 for every pound of coal burned. The U.S. burns over 1 billion tons of coal every year. There are 492 coal-fired power plants in the U.S., with an average size of 667 megawatts (MW) and an average age of 40 years.
One 500 MW coal-fired power plant produces about 3 million tons/year of CO2, adding a total of approximately 1.5 billion tons/year of CO2 to the atmosphere. If 60% of the CO2 from all these plants were captured and compressed to a liquid for geologic sequestration, its volume would equal the U.S. oil consumption of 20 million barrels/day.
