There is technology in the works today that can economically clean coal before combustion and reduce emissions to levels rivaling the emissions of a natural gas fired plant.

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Nitrogen is separated from oxygen before combustion, thereby reducing the volume of exhaust gas and making the exhaust easier to treat by preventing the formation of polluting nitrogen oxides.

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If you were plowing a field in the era before the internal combustion engine, the harness was the only way to get the job done right.

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Clean Energy separates the nitrogen before, not after, combustion.

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Their value was always acceleration, which is as valid in a combustion-engine world as it was before it.

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It actually began to occur long before humans invented agriculture, smoke stacks, and gasoline-fueled internal combustion engines.

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