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Fortnightly Magazine - August 2003   The vision: A nation filled
with new, coal-fired power plants that provide inexpensive,
secure power for Americans, while emitting few pollutants and
sequestering the carbon dioxide produced. In other words, a
power plant that not only industry and environmentalists can
agree on, but one that utilities can finance and operate
profitably.  The current reality: A nation filled with a rapidly
aging coal-fired fleet that runs inexpensively but emits large
amounts of pollutants and has no capability to sequester carbon
dioxide. In other words, power plants that not only place
industry and environmentalists constantly at odds, but which
shareholders and investors are increasingly concerned about.
The question: What will it take to get us from today's reality
to tomorrow's vision? And are we willing to do it?  There's
little doubt that the problem of carbon