Clean Coal. Has anybody noticed that?

Barack Obama That's why we had to invest in clean coal technologies. If you own a coal mine, global warming is bad news for you.

But that's the sound of clean coal technology.

Every single debate has been sponsored by Clean Coal.

Video Actor Clean coal you've heard a lot about it.

John McCain We need to have ..uh.. clean coal technology.

Take a good long look this is today's clean coal technology. Al Gore

So let's take a tour of this state of the art clean coal facility.

And while burning coal is one of the leading causes of global warming, the remarkable clean coal technology you see here changes everything.

Our society runs on energy technologies that are inefficient and detrimental to life on this planet, while clean and sustainable technologies have been around.

And the coal industries and the oil industries spent a quarter of a billion dollars in the last calendar year promoting clean coal, which is an oxymoron.

Coal dust.

Think about some of the incredible clean technologies we have today. Wind Electric amp Solar Cars Biogas

There's no real way around it, except to gin up this concoction called 'clean coal', which doesn't really exist.

But again, coal.

Coal. Coal turns out to be virtually the same stuff.

Communication technologies

like vacuum tube technologies, and relay based technologies.

They burned some coal.

The coal is burning.

It's gas. It's coal.

Not entirely unlike coal.

Coal mines, that's what's in Scranton, Pennsylvania. nice, lovely, beautiful coal mines.

Further on, he came to understand the coal, the use of the coal, and he used coal, still, again, burning.

The world will be demanding more oil than it can produce... George W. Bush ... with even greater use of 'clean coal' technology.

Clean

Clean

Clean.

Clean?

Clean!

Clean up. Go home. Clean up.

The information technologies

Coal is a fossil fuel.

They substituted coal for oil.

Coal is not always black.

Coal consists mostly of carbon.

If you burn coal, no.

Here's a piece of coal.

We all know that clean energy products, technologies, tend to be characterized by a higher upfront costs, but very low operating costs.

Whereas a coal burning plant, a normal one gigawatt coal plant, burns 80 rail cars of coal a day, each car having 100 tons.

If you ask them, they'll say, Well, you know the coal, we need the coal.

But I brought along here a lump of coal right here, one lump of coal.

India. That is the difference between adopting technologies and discussing technologies.

I'm clean.

I'm clean.