© 2024 Ideastream Public Media

1375 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44115
(216) 916-6100 | (877) 399-3307

WKSU is a public media service licensed to Kent State University and operated by Ideastream Public Media.
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
News
To contact us with news tips, story ideas or other related information, e-mail newsstaff@ideastream.org.

How viable is "clean coal" technology as an alternative energy source?

The presidential candidates are both touting energy plans that include billions of dollars of government subsidies to develop so-called "clean coal technology", but that concept is more theory than fact so far.

Scientists have yet to make it work on a practical level. Shawn Allee reports for WCPN on the effort to put the harmful greenhouse gases burning coal produces … out of sight… and out of mind.

[