coal-to-liquid News
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Encouraging lower carbon intensity
T&E's Nusa Urbancic writes in today's edition of the Financial Times: The FT accuses the European Union fuel quality directive of being an “attempt to single out Canada’s oil as uniquely dangerous”. Poppycock. To do so would be political insanity, not to mention illegal. The EU law encourages oil producers the world over to lower the carbon intensity of their products. It ...
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Senate approves tax extender bill with two polluter provisions
The bill the Senate approved today on tax extenders contains two harmful environmental provisions. One extends liquid coal tax credits and another weakens window efficiency standards, according to experts at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Liquid coal emits nearly twice the global warming pollution as conventional fuel. Even if some of the production emissions are captured and stored, ...
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Market Research Forecasts Gas-to-Liquids Processes Market at $6.8 Billion by 2017
MarketResearch.com has announced the addition of the new report "Gas-to-Liquids Processes for Chemicals and Energy Production," to their collection of Energy market reports. For more information, visit http://www.marketresearch.com/BCC-Research-v374/Gas-Liquids-Processes-Chemicals-Energy-6905470/ The total market value of products produced using GTL (gas-to-liquids), CTL (coal-to-liquids), and ...
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FY 2008 Budget Cut $100 Million for Coal to Liquid Fuel Project
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (ENS) - Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell is asking President George W. Bush to restore funding in the federal budget for development of the nation’s first plant designed to convert waste coal into zero-sulfur diesel fuel. A promised, $100 million, no-interest loan to help with construction and startup costs for the $800 million plant in Schuylkill County was removed ...
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Southern Research Institute Wins $1.5 Million Dept. of Energy Award to Economically Produce Liquid Fuels from Coal and Biomass Mixtures
Southern Research Institute today announced it has entered into a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Dept. of Energy to test an innovative method for producing liquid transportation fuels from coal and biomass thereby improving the economics and lifecycle impacts of coal-to-liquid (CTL) and coal-biomass-to-liquid (CBTL) processes. The novel approach eliminates the typical Fischer-Tropsch (FT) ...
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Effective carbon control on Antwerp agenda
Eighth European Gasification Conference draws international audience Doubts over the cost and penalties of using fossil fuels along with the substantial investment required for the implementation of new and clean power generation will be just some of the talking points at the 8th European Gasification Conference in Antwerp, Belgium from 10-12 September 2007. Organised by the ...
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KBC introduces new alternative fuels and feedstocks service
KBC Advanced Technology plc (KBC) announces the introduction of an Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks service (AFFS). In response to market demands, KBC now offers an Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks service. Several factors contribute to the quickly growing and complex market for AFFS including the high price of crude oil, challenges of crude supply, pressures to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) ...
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Montana Governor Signs Clean Energy Bills
HELENA, Montana (ENS) – Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer Tuesday signed into law two bills that provide tax incentives for future development and transmission of clean and renewable energy. The incentives support the development of new transmission lines, carbon dioxide sequestration pipelines to prevent emission of this greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, liquid fuel pipelines, power plants, ...
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World liquid fuels use projected to rise 38% by 2040, spurred by growth in Asia and Middle East
World petroleum and other liquid fuels consumption will increase 38% by 2040, spurred by increased demand in the developing Asia and Middle East, according to projections in International Energy Outlook 2014 (IEO2014), released today by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). "The growth outlook for liquid fuels use will be largely driven by demand in the developing world, especially ...
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Coal-fired Power and Ethanol Replace Oil and Gas as the Big Process Equipment Markets
This new century arrived along with a huge market for gas turbine systems and all the components as Europe and the U.S. chose this route to solve their energy problems. At the same time the future for refining and oil and gas exploration looked bright for at least the next several decades. Just six years later, the picture has dramatically changed. In fact suppliers of pumps, valves, ...
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European Commission buries new data on tar sand impacts
Canadian pressure for u-turn on EU clean fuel law Brussels, Belgium - A scientific report (1) for the European Commission, published online yesterday and then immediately withdrawn, has confirmed that carbon emissions from Canadian tar sand oil production are ‘significantly higher than...industry-average emissions from conventional fuels’. In 2008, the EU agreed a law setting a 10% ...
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An economical method of biofuel production
Fuels made from plant materials could play a role in the move to more sustainable energy production. A new costing study suggests that large-scale biomass-to-liquid (BTL) plants, could manufacture such synthetic fuels ('biosynfuel') at a cost of about 1 Euro per kg in central Europe. Under the EU Climate Action and Renewable Energy package1, Member States need to source a minimum of 10 per cent ...
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Indonesia’s economic success hinges on energy-sector investment, realistic goals
Indonesia is enhancing the governance and transparency of its energy institutions and state-owned companies, reducing fuel subsidies and facilitating much-needed infrastructure investments, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said today in its second in-depth review of the country’s energy policies, but it must move to meet demand growth and ensure the environmental sustainability of ...
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$6 Trillion Will Be Invested In New Energy Facilities Over The Next 20 Years
The era of cheap energy is over. As a result the yearly capital investment to provide the world's energy will average $304 billion per year over the next 20 years. This is the new forecast in the online continually updated World Market for Your Products published by the McIlvaine Company. The largest investment category will be new coal-fired boilers with an average investment of $48 ...
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Volatile oil has experts wondering what`s next
A year ago, a barrel of oil cost about half of what it does today. The price of West Texas Intermediate surged from near US$50 a barrel in early 2007 to an all-time high of US$105 last week. So are oil prices heading towards $150-or downward toward $50? That's the key question at a forum this week on oil prices and how to cope with them. More than 140 policy-makers from central banks, energy ...
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Light bulbs to light trucks, efficiency shapes new US energy law
Congress on 18 December passed a new energy bill and sent it along Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House in a hybrid Prius car. President George W. Bush signed the measure 19 December, which includes the first increase in vehicle fuel economy standards in 32 years. The House approved the bill, 314-100 on Tuesday. The Senate passed it last week by a vote of 86-8. The bill mandates a fuel ...
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W2 Energy Through Its European JV Partner W2H Luxembourg Holdings SA And EGM World LLC Sign Agreement For Joint Venture With BCL Limited
W2 Energy, Inc. (OTC: WTWO) is pleased to announce that its Joint Venture Partner W2H Luxembourg Holdings SA and EGM World LLC has signed an Agreement with BCL Limited (BCL) based in Botswana, Africa. The Agreement calls for a Joint Venture (JV) between the parties in order to develop the legal, financial, technical framework, and feasibility studies for the exclusive development of a ...
By XFuels Inc.
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W2 Energy Receives Commitment for CTL Prototype Plant in Botswana
W2 Energy, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: WTWO) is pleased to announce the immediate development of a Coal/Waste to Liquid (CTL) prototype plant capable of producing 10 ton/day coal/waste synthetic fuel production in Selebi-Phikwe. W2 Energy estimates the cost of manufacturing the CTL plant at $5 million. Fuel production for the 10 ton/day plant is estimated at 1,000 gallons per day. However, after the ...
By XFuels Inc.
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Coal-generated CO2 captured in Australia – a first
CSIRO Energy Technology Chief, Dr David Brockway, said the milestone followed the Garnaut Report’s recognition that Australia has an important role to play in developing low emission coal technologies such as PCC.“PCC uses a liquid to capture CO2 from power station flue gases and can potentially reduce CO2 emissions from existing and future coal-fired power stations by more than 85 per cent,” he ...
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Clean Energy Boom Powers Texas
AUSTIN, Texas, October 8, 2007 (ENS) - Texans like to say that everything is bigger in Texas, and when it comes to wind power, they're right. Texas boasts the world’s largest wind farm - FPL Energy’s 735 megawatt, MW, Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center - and also the world's second largest wind farm - the 505 MW Sweetwater project owned by Babcock & Brown & Catamount Energy, both located ...
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