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Three Chinese firms `more polluting than UK`, says Greenpeace
China's three largest power companies emit more CO2 than the entire of Britain, Greenpeace said this week. A new report found by burning 20 per cent of China's coal in 2008, the top ten companies emitted an equivalent of 1.44 billion tonnes of CO2. That year the largest three (Huaneng, Datang and Guodian) together emitted more than the United Kingdom's total emissions during the same period. ...
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IEA to launch Medium-Term Coal Market Report on 16 December
The international launch of Medium-Term Coal Market Report 2013 Press webinar on Monday 16 December 2013, 10:30 a.m. Paris time Maria van der Hoeven Executive Director, International Energy Agency (IEA) Keisuke Sadamori Director of Energy Markets and Security, IEA The Medium-Term Coal Market Report 2013 provides IEA forecasts on coal markets for the coming five years as well as an in-depth ...
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Industry Luminary, Steve Goreham, to Keynote Penton’s 2016 Coal Prep International Conference and Trade Show in April
Penton‘s Coal Prep International Conference and Trade Show (Coal Prep), the only event in the United States dedicated to coal preparation and processing, announces that independent scholar, author, researcher and energy and environmental futurist, Steve Goreham, MSEE/MBA, will deliver the keynote address. The event is scheduled April 25-27, 2016 at the Kentucky Exposition Center in ...
By Informa PLC
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Innovative drying technology extracts more energy from high moisture coal
An innovative coal-drying technology that will extract more energy from high moisture coal at less cost and simultaneously reduce potentially harmful emissions is ready for commercial use after successful testing at a Minnesota electric utility. The DryFining™ technology was developed with funding from the first round of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI). Great ...
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Coal’s health bill reaches €43 billion a year
The health costs of coal-fired power stations add a financial burden to the European population of up to €42.8 billion a year. The assessment is published today in a major new report from the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) (1). The report, entitled ‘The unpaid health bill: How coal power plants make us sick’ (2), provides the first-ever calculation of the effects of ...
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US moves toward ban on coal-fired power plants to focus on renewables
In a report compiled in early 2007, the U.S. Department of Energy listed 151 coal-fired power plants in the planning stages and talked about a resurgence in coal-fired electricity. But during 2007, 59 proposed U.S. coal-fired power plants were either refused licenses by state governments or quietly abandoned. In addition to the 59 plants that were dropped, close to 50 more coal plants are being ...
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Temporary rebound expected for coal mining in 2014
The U.S. coal mining industry will see a modest and short-lived rebound in 2014, driven by more production in Western states after two successive years of declines, according to a government forecast released Tuesday. The Energy Information Administration projected a 36 million ton increase in coal production for the year, to 1.04 billion tons. That's up 3.6 percent from 2013 figures. Low ...
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IEA sees China lead the way in developing new cleaner coal technologies
”China’s coal sector has made remarkable progress over the last decade, fuelling rapid economic growth and bringing a better quality of life for China’s citizens”, said Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), last week in Beijing at the launch of the new publication, Cleaner Coal in China. Mr. Tanaka noted that China’s coal production now provides more energy to ...
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Coal-fired power generation will continue to be the leader through 2020
Driven by the expansion of coal-fired power generation in China and India, coal will continue to be the first choice for new power generation. Between 2009 and 2020, 800 GW of coal-fired capacity will be added compared to less than 500 GW for gas-fired and 55 GW for nuclear. This is the latest forecast in Fossil & Nuclear Power Generation: World Analysis & Forecast published by the McIlvaine ...
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Greenpeace starts an energy revolution in Sardinia
Sardinian authorities have promised to revise the region's energy plans to meet EU climate protection targets, following a Greenpeace blockade at the E.ON owned Fiume Santo coal-fired power station to protest planned expansion of climate changing coal capacity in the region. Early Sunday morning, Greenpeace activists blocked conveyor belts at the plant, preventing coal from being carried to the ...
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REGISTER NOW for the IEA`s Coal 2019 embargoed press webinar on Friday, 13 December
WHAT: Under embargo press webinar for the launch of IEA's Coal 2019: Analysis and Forecasts to 2024 WHO: Keisuke Sadamori, Director, Energy Markets and Security and Carlos Fernandez Alvarez, Senior Energy Analyst WHEN: Friday, 13 December 2019 at 15:00 Paris time The International Energy Agency will host an embargoed press webinar for the launch of the Coal 2019 report on Friday, 13 December ...
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Standing for Clean Energy- Norway Divests from Coal
In the United States, approximately 20 percent of our energy consumption comes from coal. Additionally, most of the coal burning energy is found in industries. Clearly, this statistic needs to be decreased, but how can the United States collectively show big business that we want to move towards clean and sustainable energy sources? Norway sets a precedent and takes a step to stand against coal ...
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Wyoming Governor Blasts EPA`s Coal Plant Proposal
Gov. Matt Mead of Wyoming, the nation's leading coal-producing state, is calling on the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw a proposal to require new coal-fired power plants to employ carbon-capture technology. EPA administrator Gina McCarthy proposed last fall to require new coal-fired power plants to employ carbon capture and sequestration technology, a process that ...
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Fast, accurate and inexpensive Infrared Coal Fire Monitor
For fast and reliable indication of dangerous coal temperature rise in mills and storage silos the Land Infrared Coal Fire Monitor provides an inexpensive solution. When installed in the mill reject box, hopper or bunker the non-contact the Infrared thermometer gives a rapid alarm indication of temperature rise to warn of imminent coal fire. As one of 6 products in the new Land Coal Fire ...
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UN climate chief calls on coal industry to change
The top U.N. climate diplomat on Monday told the coal industry it should leave most of the world's remaining coal reserves in the ground and start investing in renewable energy sources. Speaking at a coal summit on the sidelines of a U.N. climate conference in Warsaw, Christiana Figueres said the coal industry needs to change radically to help reduce the carbon emissions that scientists say ...
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For all the Li in China
Coal from China could become a major source of the metal lithium, according to a review of the geochemistry by scientists published in the International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology. Lithium is an essential component of rechargeable batteries used almost ubiquitously in mobile gadgets such as phones, laptops, tablet computers and in many electric vehicles. Worldwide annual consumption ...
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Coal-Water Fuel as an ecological alternative to Heating Oil
What is “coal-water fuel” and how it can helps? Coal-water fuel (CWSF or CWS or CWF) is a fuel which consists of fine dispersed coal particles, water and plasticizing agent. This type of fuel is widely used as an alternative to gas and black oil on different heat generating facilities. The operational economy is the main of advantages of the coal-water fuel. CW fuel has almost ...
By GlobeCore PC
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Old King Coal is sick – but not yet dying
A global investigation into every coal-fired power plant proposed in the last five years shows that only one in three of them has actually been built. Researchers say that for each new plant constructed somewhere in the world, two more have been shelved or cancelled. They say this rate is significantly higher in Europe, South Asia, Latin America and Africa. In India, since 2012 six plants have ...
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Shincci Attended the 6th China International Coal Clean and Efficient Utilization Exhibition
On 8th Nov. 2020, the 3-day 6th China International Coal Clean and Efficient Utilization Exhibition opened in Taiyuan, with business representatives from the United States, Australia, Poland and other countries. Shincci appeared at this exhibition as the "low-temperature evaporation technology leader". The low-temperature evaporation sludge drying technology solution attracted great attention at ...
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Global coal demand growth slows slightly, IEA says in latest 5-year outlook
Tougher Chinese policies aimed at reducing dependency on coal will help restrain global coal demand growth over the next five years, the International Energy Agency<http://www.iea.org> (IEA) says in its annual Medium-Term Coal Market Report<http://www.iea.org/w/bookshop/add.aspx?id=461> released today. Despite the slightly slower pace of growth, however, coal will meet more of the ...
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