Reply #6: No. Not a chemist but a botany background [View All]

[Botany]

No matter how you burn coal; lump, liquified, gas, or some other way you get CO 2.
Which is the # 1 greenhouse gas. For years the coal biz has been paying for junk science*
to muddy the waters about the problems associated w/ coal.

Plants sequester CO 2 by photosynthesis however once the plants die and their tissues break
down the CO 2 is then released. Prairies plants tend to tie up lots of Carbon in their roots.





* Long study that said only Red Spruce was effected by acid rain (1984 ????)
But they didn't say that Red Spruce was on the tops of the mountains in the east
and if you kill the top of the mountain ..... the whole mountain suffers.