It looks like the radical environmental left may have to find a
new favorite dirty four letter word. Scientists at Ohio State
University have announced the discovery of a new process that
takes the energy from coal without burning it – "and removes
virtually all of the pollution." The technology, known as Coal-
Direct Chemical Looping (CCDL), captures more than 99 percent of
coal's carbon dioxide emissions based on laboratory research.
The team of scientists led by Liang-Shih Fan, professor of
chemical engineering and director of the Clean Coal Research
Laboratory at Ohio State University, has been working on this
and other clean coal technologies for 15 years with funding by
the Department of Energy. Almost as amazing as the discovery
itself, Prof. Fan's research project has survived three
different Presidential Administrations with vastly different
energy policies. Carbon-dioxide has long been targeted by global
warming alarmists. According to the EPA, coal-fired power plants
produced about one-third of the