Tag: Clean Coal - Page 5
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GHG Foot Prints Falling: Chinese Steel Company, FerroChina, Shuts Down Under Financial Pressure
After the Berlin wall "fell" two causal explanations were offered: Western foreign policies succeeded; or, over-investment in inefficient industries of defense destroyed the economy. Regardless of which argument is correct,
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Evidence That Taxpayer Subsidies For "Sub-Prime Coal" Not Welcome In Indiana: 'Promote Renewables First'
Six hundred adults "living in private households in the state of Indiana" recently were asked the extent to which they supported State subsidy of co-called "clean coal" projects. The results were surprising, but make sense in light of recent
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Pittsburgh Hosts International Coal Conference: As The Climate Clock Ticks
Those attending this year's 25th Annual International Pittsburgh
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It's Still a Dirty Business: McCain v. Obama on Clean Coal
Writing this comparison less that a week after former Vice-President Al Gore called for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal power plants which don't included carbon capture and storage is somehow a little
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Green Tech Investments Have Positive Outlook for 2009
While many investments look sketchy for 2009, venture capitalists expect green technology to receive strong funding according to a KPMG survey. In fact, many believe investments could grow by as much as 20%
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Got Melamine? 53,000 Chinese Children Did - In Their Milk
Exposure of Chinese infants and children to melamine-tainted milk turns out to have far been worse than was reported a few days ago. Nearly 53,000 are reported now to have been sickened; and the count
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Without Subsidies Coal & Oil Companies "Out of Business in a Couple Years": Robert Kennedy Jr
I've said it many times: Clean coal really is a contradiction in terms and that the continued fascination with it is just a distraction from getting us away from using one of the most polluting fuels on the planet. Though it could get worse, we could
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Underground Coal Gasification: Another Head of the Clean Coal Hydra
Here's one clean coal technology you may not have heard of: Underground Coal Gasification. An older technology—the Soviets first explored utilizing it in the 1930s; Uzbekistan has had a plant running using this method for 50
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9 Tonnes of CO2 Per Hour: Germany Carbon Capture Pilot Project Set to Begin
Though it certainly has a number of technical kinks to work out, and there are overarching political and ecological questions which must be addressed, carbon capture and storage (or sequestration, depending on how you want to translate the 'S' in
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"Drill Baby Drill" Screams Punctuate McCain's Energy Policy in Acceptance Speech
Last week when I posted on Barack Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, I promised John McCain would get the same treatment. As much of his speech focused on his past record of service and pointing out differences between
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Uncovering Energy Elephants in the Room? Hydrogen, Nuclear, Clean Coal
Here's one which has already elicited some heated discussion over at Renewable Energy World which is really worth considering, even if we all won't agree on some of the points the author makes. Thomas Blakeslee believes
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Economic Advantages of Green Energy Take Precedence over Environmental Benefits in Obama Acceptance Speech
Many of you have probably seen, heard or read about Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver last night. For those who haven’t seen it and who have 45 minutes to spare, a video of the entire speech is embedded
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Gold, Silver And Green?
The Summer Olympic Games in Beijing kicked off on August 8 amidst competition, national pride and a Blue Sky day. Well, a ŒBlue Sky day‚ according to Beijing standards. The Detroit Free Press reports that only one percent of China‚s urban dwellers
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Oil Shale Plant Powered by "Clean Coal"- And Cooled by Colorado River Water?
Bullion Monarch Mining Co. has developed, with modeling assistance by Federal energy lab researchers, an oil production technology which uses the dirtiest solid fuel available (coal) to extract oil from the filthiest possible source (shale)--no doubt
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GreenFuel Founder Isaac Berzin Wows Cleantech Israel Meetup, Sets Foundation for New Institute
Earlier this week we’d posted about the biofuel wonders of algae, and hooking pools of the stuff up to smokestacks to siphon off carbon dioxide emissions spewing out of power plants. This isn’t a new idea. There are about 250 companies in the world
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Algae-based Biofuels Made From Unlikely Source: Coal Power Plants
We've written about the enthusiasm for algae-based biofuels a number of times, but this is first time I've seen reference to this angle on the green fuel's production. Using waste carbon emissions from coal-fired
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The TH Interview: Jeffrey Sachs, The World's Sustainable Economist
A few years ago, I wouldn’t have known who Jeffrey Sachs was had I not walked into my university bookstore and beelined my way towards a book jacket announcing a special foreword by Bono. Always a fan of Bono’s music and philanthropic work, and intrigued
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China Short Of Coal: 12-Day Reserve And Counting
Everybody has noticed the worldwide grain shortages: starting with the hungry; eventually the Washington DCs pundit class noticed. Maybe the pundits will have answers to these new questions - How will Wal-mart fill our economic belly with low cost
