Spinning Pollution Into Gold?

Power generation is a dirty business no matter what you do. Oh, sure, solar and wind power are clean, but we’re a long away from a point where they’ll represent a substantial part of our day-to-day power needs. And given the sometimes-outsized paranoia about nuclear power, most of our energy comes, and will continue to come, from coal-burning plants.

Consequently, companies like Eastman Chemical (NYSE: EMN – News), Engelhard (NYSE: EC – News), Siemens (NYSE: SI – News), and Foster Wheeler (Nasdaq: FWLT – News) make a fair bit of coin on systems, chemicals, and retrofits designed to reduce the creation and output of these nasty pollutants. Now, a scrappy little small cap by the name of Fuel Tech (Nasdaq: FTEK – News) wants a piece of that action, too.

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