coal power plant emissions News
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World`s First Integrated CCS of Coal-fired Power Plant Emissions Begins
A carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) demonstration project jointly under way by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Southern Company, a major U.S. electric utility, has begun underground injection of carbon dioxide (CO2) recovered from emissions from a coal-fired power generation plant. The event marks an important milestone in the world's first integrated CCS project for flue gas ...
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Countdown to Climate Summit arrives in Beijing
With only nine months left until the UN climate summit in Copenhagen, Greenpeace China has brought the countdown clock to Beijing. Activists turned one of Beijing's ancient city gates into a gigantic countdown clock marking the time left till the UN climate summit in Copenhagen. The glowing projection, which spread across the giant gate, read: 'Time is Running Out to Stop Global Warming.' And ...
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New IEA report shows technology can transform energy system but emphasises need for decisive policy action now
A host of new technologies is ready to transform the energy system, offering the potential to drastically reduce carbon emissions, enhance energy security and generate a huge investment return, the International Energy Agency<http://www.iea.org/> (IEA) said in its flagship energy technology publication launched today. The book, Energy Technology Perspectives ...
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Beijing issues 2nd smog red alert of the month
China's capital Beijing issued its second smog red alert of the month on Friday, triggering vehicle restrictions and forcing schools to close. A wave of smog is due to settle over the city of 22.5 million from Saturday to Tuesday. Levels of PM2.5, the smallest and deadliest airborne particles, are set to top 500, according to the official Beijing government website. That is more than 20 times ...
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Around $80 billion wasted on power for online devices in 2013
Today, the world’s 14 billion online electronic devices – such as set-top boxes, modems, printers and game consoles – waste around USD 80 billion each year because of inefficient technology. By 2020, the problem will considerably worsen, with an estimated USD 120 billion wasted. But a report by the International Energy Agency points to a different path, identifying simple ...
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Market Research Predicts Clean Coal Technologies at $85 Billion by 2020
MarketResearch.com has announced the addition of the new report "Clean Coal Technologies Markets and Trends Worldwide, 2nd Edition" to their collection of Energy market reports. For more information, visit http://www.marketresearch.com/SBI-v775/Clean-Coal-Technologies-Trends-Worldwide-6447642/ Coal is expected to continue to be a dominant fuel in power generation due to its low cost and ...
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Ways to Reduce Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere
The article follows on from recent scientific reports which claim that simply cutting emissions will not be enough, and that a focus needs to be put on storage solutions of carbon. The intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has advised that if we are to keep global temperatures from rising more than 2°C, then the extraction of CO₂ from the air is essential. The news report focuses ...
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Colloidal Coal Water Fuel by Nanotechnology for power generation
Coal is still the dominant fuel used for power generation due to its low cost and abundant availability despite its emission problems and global warming issues. Companies around the world are trying to improve the efficiency of coal fired power plants and reduce emissions by various methods. The idea is to prepare an ultra clean coal with very low ash content in the form of coal-water slurry that ...
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IEA urges the Czech Republic to set conditions to boost energy investments
The International Energy Agency praised the Czech Republic for supporting the development of robust natural gas and electricity infrastructure in its latest review of Czech energy policies. The country has the highest level of electricity interconnection capacity within Central Europe and is equally well connected to neighbouring natural gas markets. Dr Fatih Birol, the IEA's executive director, ...
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GE FlexEfficiency* 60 Truck Tour: a Journey into the Future of Power Generation
GE’s (NYSE: GE) FlexEfficiency 60 Truck Tour today begins a journey into the future of power generation. Over the next four months, the 4,000-mile tour will stop in 25 North American cities, showcasing the economic and environmental benefits of GE’s latest and most advanced energy technology. A custom-designed, 18-wheel tractor-trailer is loaded with ...
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EPA landmark clean air act settlement with tva to modernize coal-fired power plants and promote clean energy investments / state-of-the-art pollution controls and clean energy technology to provide up to $27 billion in annual health benefits
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a settlement with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to resolve alleged Clean Air Act violations at 11 of its coal-fired plants in Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee. The settlement will require TVA to invest a TVA estimated $3 to $5 billion on new and upgraded state-of-the-art pollution controls that will prevent approximately 1,200 ...
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EIP Report: Cost Of Deaths From 18 Coal-Fired Power Plants` Pollution Higher Than Value Of Electricity Generated
Up to 5,700 deaths a year can be attributed to 51 of the dirtiest coal fired power plants in the United States with no announced plans for sulfur dioxide (SO2) clean-up measures, according to a new report from the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project (EIP). Even using the most conservative estimate, the estimated cost to society of the premature deaths caused by 18 of the power plants ...
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Reducing air pollution from coal power plants in the Western Balkans would save thousands of lives annually
Tomorrow, ministers at the 15th ministerial council meeting of the Energy Community in Kosovo will adopt new rules for emission limits for coal power plants in the Western Balkans (as part of the transposition of the EU’s Industrial Emissions Directive into national law). The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) calls on political leaders to put the countries on track for swift and ...
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OriginOil Announces Revenue from First Customer
Shipment of OriginOil Quantum Fracturing System to MBD Energy Triggers Payment LOS ANGELES - OriginOil, Inc. (OOIL), the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum, today announced that it recently notified MBD Energy Limited that it is ready to ship a Quantum Fracturing™ System, the first unit ...
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Obama`s climate plan takes aim at coal plants
America is slowly moving toward cleaner sources of energy and using less of it overall. President Barack Obama's plan to fight climate change will accelerate those trends. The plan aims to reduce power-plant emissions of carbon dioxide, increase America's reliance on natural gas and renewables and make trucks, homes and businesses more efficient. Some parts of the plan will take months to work ...
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Poisoning the Great Lakes: 25 Coal-fired Power Plants Responsible For Half the Region`s Mercury Pollution
Just ahead of a major U.S. Senate vote on the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to clean up mercury and other toxic air pollutants, a Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) report shows that the 25 worst coal-fired power plants account for more than half of the dangerous mercury pollution emitted by the total of 144 electricity generation facilities in the Great Lakes region. The ...
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