Coal

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Over the next eight years, China predicts it will put into operation 562 coal-fired plants -- nearly half the world's total -- and India is projected to add 213 such plants. The United States is expected to build 72.

U.S. and European officials are touting the most prominent clean-coal method, called Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle, or IGCC. Under this process, coal is turned into a gas, which is then burned in a process that allows carbon dioxide to be siphoned off rather than released into the air.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/04/MNGDKDISL21.DTL&hw=Over+the+next+eig...