URANIUM IN COAL

Carbon is what coal is all about, except for the :
Aluminum	Chromium	Molybdenum
Antimony	Cobalt	Nickel
Arsenic	Copper	Selenium
Barium	Fluorine	Silver
Beryllium	Iron	Sulfur
Boron	Lead	Titanium
Cadmium	Magnesium	Uranium
Calcium	Manganese	Vanadium
Chlorine	Mercury	Zinc
etc. that coal also contains.  

The amount of any one of these elements in coal varies wildly from place to place, and varies widely even within one mine.  

Take uranium as an example of what else you get besides CO2 as emissions from coal plants.  The average concentration of uranium in coal is 1 or 2 parts per million.   
Illinois coal contains up to 103 parts per million uranium.   
A 1 billion watt coal fired power plant burns 4 million tons 
of coal each year.   If you multiply 4 million tons by 1 part 
per million, you get 4 tons of uranium.   99.3% of that is 
U238.   About .7% is U235.   4 tons = 8000 pounds.   Therefore an average 1 000 MW coal fired power plant puts out 56 to 112  pounds of U235 every year.   There are only 2 places the uranium (and other elements listed above) can go: up the stack or into the cinders.

   Where do you find advanced, lower-carbon coal?   Frank 
O'Donnell, please go back and ask Senator Bingaman to 
explain exactly what advanced, lower-carbon coal is.   Is it 
coal that contains More of the other pollutants?   My best 
guess is that "advanced, lower-carbon coal" is just a new 
propaganda buzz phrase intended to confuse people.   
Advanced, lower-carbon coal is just as non-existent as 
"clean" coal.   And yes, coal is a $100 Billion per year 
industry in the US, and that is a lot of clout.   You can buy 
a lot of congressmen with an income like that.

   "Advanced, lower-carbon coal" would really be 
humorous if it weren't about coal causing climate change to the point of threatening the future of life on our planet.   Reference: Scientific American article "Impact from the Deep", October 2006, pages 65 to 71. 

 If business continues as usual, we will go extinct in 200 years because hydrogen sulfide will bubble out of the oceans and kill us.   You can download the article 
from:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00037A5D-
A938-150E-A93883414B7F0000&sc=I100322

The article says we have 200 years before we go 
extinct if we don't take drastic action now.   The bipartisan 
legislation introduced last week by Senators Jeff Bingaman, 
D-N.M., and Arlen Specter, R-Pa is your typical SHAM 
legislation.   By "SHAM legislation" I mean that it is 
legislation intended to fool you into thinking that something is being done when, in fact, nothing is being done.   The US code is now full of sham laws.   The bipartisan legislation introduced last week by Senators Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and Arlen Specter, R-Pa is Business As Usual. 

With laws like that, there is a real risk that we WILL go extinct in 200 years.