Like Cancer, a total cure or reliable cheap replacement is a long time away so you will have to live with it or die in the dark
China, India, and 3rd world "Hungry" countries with continue to use or start to use coal
and with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster Japan, Germany and now even France (having nuclear problems of their own)
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are looking again at coal
If it going to be around then a method for making it cleaner needs to be obtained