With or Without Carbon Capture, Coal-to-Liquids Are Climate Change Disaster

Want to reduce pollution and fight climate change? Coal-to-liquid fuel won't do it. Photo: Addictive Picasso via flickr In addition to all of the oral presentations and the Copenhagen Climate Congress over the past couple of days, there were dozens of poster presentations. These are just what they sound like, a large poster summarizing a piece of research. One which caught my eye, in light of all the recent talk about clean coal and carbon capture and storage was from Daniel Vallentin of the Wuppertal Insti...