Illinois vs. Texas in the battle for a lucrative project that could pave the way for 'green' coal
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he $1.8 billion FutureGen plant will test a kind of green-era alchemy: whether energy can be coaxed from dirty coal with near zero pollution. The competition has narrowed to four sites in the Lone Star and Prairie States, and a winner will be named next week.
The showdown is just the latest dating back to the Mexican-American war, when Illinois troops smuggled the captured wooden leg of Alamo conqueror Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna north to Springfield, where it resides to this day in a museum. It was a war trophy Texans would have loved dearly.
he $1.8 billion FutureGen plant will test a kind of green-era alchemy: whether energy can be coaxed from dirty coal with near zero pollution. The competition has narrowed to four sites in the Lone Star and Prairie States, and a winner will be named next week.
The showdown is just the latest dating back to the Mexican-American war, when Illinois troops smuggled the captured wooden leg of Alamo conqueror Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna north to Springfield, where it resides to this day in a museum. It was a war trophy Texans would have loved dearly.
Labels: Illinois. Texass. Coal. Energy
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