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On the recordJuly 31, 2001
The animals are only there a few months of the year. Back to the other issues, in Penn State they have new research that has been very successful at making jet fuel out of coal. They also get a carbon product that could be used in the carbon industries. That is moving to refinery development this year. They also have some coal boilers that interest me. They have one that would burn gas, powdered coal, or oil. Think if a factory, hospital or business had the ability to burn any one of those three fuels cleanly. And the clean technology is with us; the scrubbers and all the equipment is with this boiler. Now if you are a business person, a hospital, or one of our educational facilities, we buy the fuel that is the cheapest. We are not in bondage to any one fuel. They also have the fluidized bed boiler that we are utilizing in Pennsylvania a lot for burning our old waste coal piles, with high sulfur and very low Btu. The waste coal was piled on top of the ground. We are now burning and getting rid of it because it was an environmental hazard. The fluidized bed process will allow us to burn almost anything, that process where we use crushed limestone with whatever we burn, and the limestone locks up with the pollutants. Then with the scrubbers, we really have a very fuel-efficient and a very clean burn. That is another type of burner that I think we ought to be promoting, because again, we could burn coal and animal waste, or oil, a blend of oil and coal.
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John W. Peterson
Pennsylvania

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Discussing advancements in clean coal technology and its applications.

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