Complete video at: fora.tv Panelists hotly debate Google’s proposed plan to phase out all coal plants by 2030 and replace them with alternative energy plants. Clean coal advocate Joe Lucas draws from an example of a North Dakota town to argue against the vulnerability of wind power. —– Is clean coal hope for the future, or just misleading marketing jargon? Panelists weigh in on the possibilities and opportunities. Coal-fired power plants are the largest US emitters of CO2 and human-generated mercury, yet our nation is poised to build many new coal plants in the future. Panelists discuss new technologies for carbon capture and storage and IGCC, and the implications of energy policy decisions on the health of our economy and our planet. – Commonwealth Club of California Julio Freidman is Director of the Carbon Sequestration Project at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Ray Lane is a Managing Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, focused on helping entrepreneurs with technological and market insight, organizational development, team building, selling and managing growth. Since joining KPCB, Ray has sponsored several investments for the firm in enterprise and consumer technology, as well as clean and alternative energy. These companies include Ausra (solar concentrator), GreatPoint Energy (coal to gas conversion), Fisker Automotive (plug-in hybrid car), Th!nk NA (electric car), Luca Technologies (biologically enhanced gas recovery from fossilized hydrocarbons …