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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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Tennessee Valley Authority to close 8 coal-powered units in Alabama and Kentucky
The nation's largest public utility is shuttering eight coal-fired boilers at plants in Alabama and Kentucky, and more reductions could be in store over the next few years. The Tennessee Valley Authority relied on coal to generate a majority of its electricity for decades, but at a Thursday board meeting in Oxford, Miss., CEO Bill Johnson said he hopes to reduce coal to just 20 percent of the ...
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Feds, Duke Energy settle on pollution at coal-burning plants
Duke Energy and the Obama Administration are settling a 15-year-old lawsuit over claims that the largest U.S. electric company violated federal clean air laws by modifying coal-fired power generators without required air pollution control equipment, company and administration officials said Thursday. The Charlotte-based energy company would pay a civil penalty of $975,000, shut down one ...
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Kentucky Plant Emblematic Of Move from Coal to Gas
In the shadow of Paradise Fossil Plant's aging smokestacks, where white steam and carbon dioxide rise into the sky, outdated coal-fired generators are being replaced with one that runs on natural gas. The change in Muhlenberg County, once the nation's top producer of coal, is emblematic of what's been happening across the U.S. as natural gas becomes cheaper and electric utilities try to meet ...
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The Biggest Obstacle to enjoying the Hong Kong Skyline
One of Hong Kong’s biggest tourist attractions is its famed skyline. With the density of picturesque skyscrapers both on the main island and in the neighboring Kowloon, this little city has one of the most impressive and recognizable skylines in the entire world. When coupled with the Chinese sampan boats in the harbor, Hong Kong has one of the most impressive and iconic cityscapes you can ...
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Global decrease in coal burning leads to stalling of CO2 emissions in 2015
In 2015, after three years of slow growth, the growth of global CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel use and from steel and cement production was brought to a standstill. One of the main causes was the 2% global decrease in coal burning and cement production - the largest decrease over the past five decades, apart from recessions. The global decrease in CO2 emissions from coal use was offset by ...
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Primary Contractor Named to Construct Bixby Energy Systems Devolitization Facilities in China
MINNEAPOLIS - China Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC) has been chosen by Global Partners United, LLC (GPU) as the contractor to build turnkey facilities related to Bixby Energy Systems' coal-to-gas technology throughout China. MCC will act as general contractor and work collaboratively with GPU, Bixby Energy's strategic partner and licensee in China. MCC is one of the leading multinational ...
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Response to Daily Mail article on biomass at Drax
We don’t recognise the figure used in the Daily Mail article on 7 October saying that government subsidies for the conversion of Drax’s coal-burning furnaces to biomass ones will put £23 on annual household energy bills for the next 13 years. It also wrong to describe biomass as a ‘grotesque environmental charade’. Professor David Mackay’s model shows that ...
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World leaders urged to kick killer coal habit
Leaders of G7 countries at this weekend’s summit in Germany are being called on today to show leadership by pledging to end all coal burning for electricity generation in the industrialised world. “Let Them Eat Coal”, a report by the international relief charity Oxfam, explains how it can be achieved without financial difficulty, and warns that continuing to burn coal will kill ...
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World coal-fired power plants capacity to grow by 35% in next 10 years
World coal-fired power plant capacity will grow from 1,759,000 MW in 2010 to 2,384,000 MW in 2020. Some 80,000 MW will be replaced. So there will be 705,000 MW of new coal-fired boilers built. The annual new boiler sales will average 70,000 MW. The annual investment will be $140 billion. These are the most recent forecasts in Coal-fired Boilers: World Analysis and Forecast published by the ...
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New EU report will call for 90% capture of CO2 emissions by 2015
You may have heard about 'Carbon Capture and Storage' - it's a way of keeping CO2 from entering the atmosphere and contributing to global warming. Last year a proposed Europe-wide directive was proposed, which would regulate the emerging practice. British Liberal Chris Davies is preparing a report calling for it to be mandatory. He wants all new coal burning power stations to be required to ...
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Ladwp selects Orion Carport Systems to install 278.46 Kw Carport System
Orion Carport Systems and Construction Inc., Orion Racking’s carport division, is pleased to announce that it has been chosen by LADWP to design, fabricate, and train their crew to install a 278.46 kW solar carports system at their location in Van Nuys, California. The system is projected to produce 408,460 kWh per year. This amount of energy produced is equivalent to CO2 emissions from ...
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Wyoming top in CO2 per person amid new regulations
Turns out the worst state for carbon dioxide emissions per person isn't smoggy California or bustling New York, but a place famous for its big, clear skies: Wyoming. But regulating greenhouse gases is a touchy subject in the least-populated state, which just recently received U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approval to do so. Wyoming also is the top coal-mining state by far, producing ...
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New York governor encourages unique clean coal plant
New York Governor David Paterson Tuesday announced that the state would offer up to US$6 million in financial support for construction of a coal-fired power demonstration plant in Jamestown that will be the first of its kind in the world. The Jamestown coal plant would burn coal in pure oxygen instead of air. This process leaves water and the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, CO2, which can be ...
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New Membrane Technology for Post-Combustion Carbon Capture Begins Pilot-Scale Test
A promising new technology sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for economically capturing 90 percent of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted from a coal-burning power plant has begun pilot-scale testing. The technology is the PolarisTM membrane system, developed by Membrane Technology and Research Inc. (MTR). The system uses a specially designed CO2-selective membrane—a ...
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Bixby Energy Systems Introduces Revolutionary Process for Converting Coal Into Energy with Minimal Carbon Emissions
Bixby Process Produces Synthetic Natural Gas without Need to "Capture and Bury" Global Warming-Producing Carbon Dioxide Gas MINNEAPOLIS - A revolutionary process that efficiently converts coal into clean burning energy has been developed and is commercially available from Bixby Energy Systems, Inc., a Minneapolis-based new-energy technology development company. The patent-pending Bixby ...
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First-of-its-Kind Carbon Capture and Conversion Demonstration Technology Opening in Texas
Today, the Department of Energy and Skyonic Corporation marked the opening of a major project demonstration for converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into commercial products. This new plant will use a first-of-its-kind process to capture 75,000 tons of CO2 from a San Antonio, Texas, cement plant and convert the greenhouse gas into other products, including sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate, ...
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Lawsuits Seek to Stop Work at Mines in 3 States
Coal industry representatives say lawsuits against mines in three Western states could have consequences across the U.S. as environmentalists seek changes in how mining is approved on federally owned reserves. In civil cases unfolding in Colorado, New Mexico and Montana, the group WildEarth Guardians asserts coal companies benefited from lax oversight by federal regulators. The group says the ...
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Coal pollution costs Western Balkans dear
One dollar in three earned by the economy of Serbia is accounted for by those of its citizens who die early because of the country’s soaring air pollution. The finding, by the World Health Organisation (WHO), is contained in a report published by a campaign group thatargues for an end to coal-burning throughout Europe by 2040 to protect health and to reduce the carbon emissions that drive ...
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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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