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Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) is a leading global consulting company specializing in the analysis of energy markets and geo-politics. It's chairman is Daniel Yergin, a Pulitzer-prize-winning author, business leader and member of the US Petroleum Council.

And a week in advance of its big annual energy conference in Houston, CERA has released a new report on the future of clean energy. Here's what it has to say about Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), the more technical term for so-called "clean" coal.

Even in the best case, CCS is at least two decades away from large scale deployment.....Current expectations seem to underestimate the lead time needed for widespread application.

Two decades. Twenty years. 2028. Which makes you wonder what all those "clean" coal commercials are doing on TV now -- the ones which show the orange extension cord plugged into a lump of -- um -- dirty coal.