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Chemical looping: a clean coal breakthrough
2013-05-29 01:00:00| Power Technology
A new process developed at Ohio State University could dramatically improve the fortunes of costly carbon capture methods. With renewables not yet ready to flood the market, could this technology unlock the potential of emissions-reducing clean coal
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Natural Gas Gets Burned As Power Plants Return To Coal
2013-05-28 18:00:00| OGI
Coming emissions rules would benefit Marcellus, Haynesville, Barnett.
Europe's black lung: the hidden healthcare costs of EU coal
2013-05-28 01:00:00| Power Technology
A report from the Health and Environment Alliance claims that fumes from coal-fired power plants cause 18,000 deaths a year in Europe, costing 42.8bn in healthcare. With the plummeting cost of dirty coals such as lignite promoting a spike in Europea
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Indonesia's largest coal plant will be built despite protests, minister says
2013-05-26 19:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Plants carbon emissions will top that of entire country of Myanmar and will threaten local livelihoods, environmental groups say. Indonesia will go ahead with construction of what is set to be its largest coal-fired power plant in Batang, Central Java next year, a senior government official has said, downplaying opposition from environmental groups and the local community. Developers have struggled to acquire the approximately 200 hectares of land needed for the planned PLTU Batang plant,...
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Australia: 'Death By a Thousand Cuts': Coal Boom Could Destroy Great Barrier Reef
2013-05-25 06:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Spiegel: Australia's Great Barrier Reef is rapidly losing its coral, to the point that UNESCO may soon place the natural wonder on its "in danger" list. Climate change is one culprit, but so is the country's booming extraction industry. Environmentalists warn that time is running out for the reef. The man whose job it should be to protect the Great Barrier Reef is actually afraid of water. The vast ocean, with all the creatures it contains, makes him uneasy. Only once has he visited the reef, the world's...
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