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Friday, 04/03/2020 3:00:18 AM

Friday, April 03, 2020 3:00:18 AM

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https://www.gillettenewsrecord.com/news/local/article_88ca080d-7845-5f83-b1aa-48d8f7dfec1f.html

While exciting, Sant also cautions against believing beyond our potential to use and manufacture carbon-based products. That’s because, even with huge production drop-offs nearing 40 percent, nothing compares to the sheer volume of coal mined and burned to produce electricity.

“The scale of the challenge is massive,” he said. “As a state, what does Wyoming try and go after? Do you try and protect an industry that’s based on extraction, or be an incubator of technology? In time, it’s much more valuable to hold technology and offer technology rather than extraction.”

He uses Silicon Valley as an example. It wasn’t the carbon-based computer chips that grew that area into an economic powerhouse, it was the technology developed there.
A new approach
Billions of dollars has been spent on failed carbon and coal technology over the past 15 years, said Robin Eves, president and CEO of Clean Coal Technologies Inc. But after years of failure, he said his company is starting to realize some success.

CASPER — Wyoming’s mineral industries have asked Gov. Mark Gordon to consider mining and drilling operations “essential” activities in anticipation of further potential business restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic. 1-day ago.