I'd say check with me when it happens, but our great-great grandchildren MIGHT maybe start to be worried about that.
Point taken. If there are no other alternatives, including cleaner ones (that don't need scrubbers - how much energy do scrubbers use? Those suckers ain't tiny!) by then, coal power is gonna get more expensive as time goes on, and possibly quite unaffordable before great-grandchildren come along.

As the election plods on here, everything from a punitive 'carbon tax' for 'cap and trade' is being bandied about. There are pretty good environmental standards for the manufacturing industry in the USA - which is why a lot of companies moved work to Mexico, where there are no standards. Too bad the money involved in building coal plants and lowering standards in places like Mexico couldn't be put towards research and implementation of green technology.

Would be nice if it was against the law to pollute. An interesting concept, that's all.