Main stream media, Brian Williams on NBC nightly news, called clean coal an "oxymoron" just last evening. Then proceeded to show a clean coal pure oxygen CCS plant in Germany where the liquid CO2 is trucked to a cap rock sequestration well. "It could raise the cost of coal electricity 50%", was the tagline. Better that government chooses technology to support with subsidies and mass production orders than let industry pursue full scale boondoggles like this. Separating oxygen for combustion, extracting pollutants, then compressing CO2 into a liquid state, trucking it in a tanker truck and pumping it underground, only increasing the cost by 50%?   more »