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Wesley Clark Calls for 'Long-Term Fight' for Renewables

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"We in the renewable sector shouldn't take on ourselves the immediate burden of replacing all other energy sources," Clark said. He added, as a light aside, "Let's give ourselves five to 10 years at least."

Clark also pointed to "clean coal" technologies that haven't yet commercialized, but that could hold promise for negating coal's oversized role in the emission of greenhouse gases.

"I think we can do a lot with coal, if we can clean it" and capture its carbon-dioxide emissions, he said. "With the right incentives and development, maybe there's a future for coal gasification and liquification."

Cleaner-coal technologies are controversial among environmentalists, who argue that mining prevents coal from being clean, even if technologies to capture and store carbon dioxide prove effective.

Even though he supports the technologies, Clark added that fossil fuels such as coal should be taxed, and that emitters should be subject to a carbon cap-and-trade system.
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