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Costly 'cleaner' coal fights for space in emissions debate
2015-11-30 11:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The global coal industry is trumpeting "cleaner coal" technology to fight bubbling competition from renewable energy, but the high costs of greener plants are proving a major obstacle in selling them to power-hungry countries such as India. The challenges are highlighted by the experience of Japan - despite a concerted push by Tokyo to take a lead in exporting the technology, only 7 percent of the power stations built or planned since 2010 with funds from Tokyo's export credit agency were of the...
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