When throwing money more at FutureGen is being considered, our problems have grow from horrible to epic.
I could not say enough of what a backwards step this is towards energy independence or sustainability... but what has been said should be enough to bury funding for carbon capture and sequestration until it has been demonstrated that it does not use MORE coal, generate MORE emissions and not leak CO2 back out of storage.
We have thousands of financially sound, 'ready for primetime' options for sustainable energy... this is NOT that.
From New York Times - Clean Coal Project Revived in Illinois
A major public-private project to capture and store carbon dioxide emissions that was abandoned by the Bush administration is being restarted, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today.
The Illinois-based project, known as FutureGen, was cut off in January 2008 because of escalating costs (although a later study found that costs had not doubled to $1.8 billion from $950 million, as the Bush administration had believed).