Now We're Back To Clean Coal?

       Well, the government program that came under fire for loaning so much money to renewable energy companies like Solyndra has now decided to begin to loan money again for clean energy. You remember them. The solar panel manufacturer who went belly up. Well anyway, now the program will target cleaner energy through oil and coal.
       You heard it right. We're gonna pay out good money, lots of it, to make coal and oil burn clean. Now I believe that science can accomplish almost anything given a little time and a lot of money, including clean coal and oil. But it's not the cleaning that's the problem. They can figure out how to do that fairly easily, relatively speaking. No, the real problem is going to be how they can clean up all the stuff they have to remove from the coal and oil to make them clean. And if they can't clean it up, what are they gonna do with that stuff.
       Remember, the stuff they remove from the coal and oil to make them 'clean' is toxic. It's killer stuff. It's like taking guns out of the hands of insane mass murderers. It would be fine if you don't put the guns in the hands of other mass murderers. Not that anyone would be that stupid. But once we remove these toxic pollutants  from the coal and oil, exactly what are we supposed to do with all that stuff? I'll bet you don't want it in your back yard next to the pool.
       Or should we just dump it into our rivers and hope it washes out to sea? That's silly, of course we wouldn't do that. But what then? Do we bury it? Would that be good for our drinking water? How about using it as fertilizer for our flower gardens? All except it would kill our flowers and probably the family dog, not to mention all the bees left over after Sudden Hive Collapse.
       But we still haven't answered the question of what to do with all this poison we've managed to suck out of our coal and oil? Just cleaning up Canadian Tar Sands Oil in one single refinery near Detroit has created an actual mountain of these toxins. Is that the answer? Just pile it as high as we can and call it the Alps?
      Wouldn't it make more sense to take a chance on losing more money to failed renewable energy companies until that science can bring us some good clean energy sources? If you do think it makes more sense, then call your congressman and tell him so. If you don't agree, then invest in a good filtration manufacturer.