The fight to end the usage of coal has been a long one. Tedious research and inventions have been made in search of clean burning fuel. Recently, the quest to find such resources has become necessary to our environment and health. Obama has been working to make his cap - and - trade proposal work, which would lower greenhouse gas emissions. The Bush administration had started a plan called FutureGen. FutureGen would eliminate greenhouse gases completely. However, this plan has been under construction since 2003 and citizens hopes are growing weary. Financial aid has been cancelled for the plan because it would have cost billions of dollars to carry out.
In the opinion of the author, FutureGen was better being cancelled. His article states his opinion that the government is good at brainstorming for ideas on a small scale but when it comes to big projects, such as FutureGen, they often have trouble. The FutureGen idea, according to the author and many others, is not a well thought out one. The nickname for the project has become "NeverGen" because it has taken so long and the creators are losing inspiration as well as finanicial aid. Also, the author feels because coal is used as half the fuel source of the world, an invention such as FutureGen is impossible because you can't simply rely on wind, solar, and water power when they only make up two percent of our fuel source.
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