Random Thoughts of Chris Tilley

One of the links to my post from the other day lead me to this YouTube video on a proposed IGCC Coal Plant in Taylorville, IL. Illinois coal has a problem with sulfur content which makes it less marketable due to environmental regulations. An IGCC Coal plant can remove most of that sulfur and make that coal marketable again. The 'Clean Coal Plant in Would Be Economic Boon, NIU Study Finds' article from BusinessWire list a number of benefits to the economy.

They are getting incentives from the state government who is trying to revitalize the coal mining industry but this is a large plant that must be economically feasible or they wouldn't build it. So there are some new plants in the pipeline to be built. I still think that a carbon cap and trade system would speed up the process.