Of course, it was not mineral coal that I was talking about in my mischieviously titled Clean Coal for Energy Independence, it was biomass charcoal.

The idea was to have a readily stored renewable power source that can be brought online to fill in for lulls in renewable power sources with variable availability.


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.