China coal project risks environmental crisis
- At five minutes past 10am on a sunny Wednesday morning in June, the demolition crew outside the largest coal-fired heating plant in downtown Beijing went to work. Two excavators trundled forward to...
View ArticleConcerns Over Greenhouse Gas Emissions at Coal Plants to Expedite Deployment...
GIA announces the release of a comprehensive global report on Clean Coal Technologies markets. Global market for Clean Coal Technologies is projected to reach US$30.9 billion by 2018, driven by...
View ArticleConcerns Over Greenhouse Gas Emissions at Coal Plants to Expedite Deployment...
GIA announces the release of a comprehensive global report on Clean Coal Technologies markets. Global market for Clean Coal Technologies is projected to reach US$30.9 billion by 2018, driven by...
View Article>Concerns Over Greenhouse Gas Emissions at Coal Plants to Expedite Deployment...
GIA announces the release of a comprehensive global report on Clean Coal Technologies markets. Global market for Clean Coal Technologies is projected to reach US$30.9 billion by 2018, driven by...
View ArticleEskom plans to cut water usage through dry-cooling technology
Eskom aims to reduce its water consumption by 260 billion litres a year by 2030. The utility said the alternative technologies used at its new power stations would reduce the water requirement to 270...
View ArticleTo clean up coal, Obama pushes more oil production
DE KALB, Miss. — America's newest, most expensive coal-fired power plant is hailed as one of the cleanest on the planet, thanks to government-backed technology that removes carbon dioxide and keeps it...
View ArticleEskom to cut water use by 260bn litres
Eskom aims to reduce its water consumption by 260 billion litres a year by 2030. The utility said the alternative technologies used at its new power stations would reduce the water requirement to 270...
View ArticleDevelopment plan calls for more gas, warns on coal export restrictions
South Africa’s ‘National Development Plan 2030’ calls for efforts to be made to substitute coal with gas in the country’s energy mix, including developing shale gas resources “provided the overall...
View Article>Coal gas boom in China holds climate change risks
HEXIGTEN, China (AP) — Deep in the hilly grasslands of remote Inner Mongolia, twin smoke stacks rise more than 200 feet into the sky, their steam and sulfur billowing over herds of sheep and cattle....
View ArticleChina's Coal Gas Boom Holds Climate Change Risks
HEXIGTEN, China (AP) — Deep in the hilly grasslands of remote Inner Mongolia, twin smoke stacks rise more than 200 feet into the sky, their steam and sulfur billowing over herds of sheep and cattle....
View ArticleThe battle of Majuba goes underground
Coal trucks are a common sight on the green-flanked roads to the Majuba power station in Mpumalanga. They are either hauling 42 000 tonnes of coal daily to feed the station's insatiable appetite, or...
View ArticleCleaning up coal
London - According to the popular narrative, coal is locked in a fight to the death with natural gas and renewables to supply clean electrical energy. Promoters of gas, wind and solar often talk about...
View ArticleUnderground coal gas power project on cards in Free State
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – A project that will supply underground coal gas from a deep, stranded coal deposit in the Free State to an independent power producer (IPP) is at an advanced stage of...
View ArticleCoal Greens Love Buoyed by Shale Gas Hydrualic Fracking
The world’s most abundant fossil fuel could be tapped without moving mountains, delivered without trucks or trains and burned without greenhouse-gas emissions. The technology to make this possible has...
View ArticleCoal greens love buoyed by shale gas hydraulic fracking
Posted on August 29, 2012 at 6:43 am by Bloomberg in Fracking, Natural Gas A Siemens coal gasifier. (Photo: Siemens) The world’s most abundant fossil fuel could be tapped without moving mountains,...
View ArticleUnderground coal gasification holds significant opportunity for SA – Lennon
State-owned power utility Eskom would start work on a larger-scale underground coal gasification (UCG) plant at its Majuba power station, in Mpumalanga, as soon as environmental approvals were...
View ArticleUnderground coal gasification holds promise as energy source – Sipho Nkosi
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Underground coal gasification (UCG) holds promise as a future source of energy for South Africa, Exxaro CEO Sipho Nkosi said on Monday Nkosi, who hosted a media lunch,...
View ArticleCoal properties critical when determining suitable gasification technology...
The use of suitable gasification processes to convert different coals from a solid to a liquid is often overlooked and mistakes in the choice of gasifier design have been made in South Africa over the...
View ArticleCoal gasification: The clean energy of the future?
Dirty it may be, but coal is cheap. For this simple reason, it remains the world's main source of power, providing a quarter of our primary energy and more than 40% of our electricity. And it will...
View ArticleWorld recognising underground coal gasification as viable – clean coal analyst
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Underground coal gasification (UCG) is now being recognised globally as a viable and economic method of accessing deep, otherwise unrecoverable coal reserves, both on...
View ArticleSA's coal clean-up digs deep with gasification
Johannesburg - South Africa produces almost all of its power from coal-fired plants that pollute the air with dark clouds of smoke and fail to generate enough electricity to avert blackouts. Now, if...
View ArticleSouth Africa's coal clean-up digs deep with gasification
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa produces almost all of its power from coal-fired plants that pollute the air with dark clouds of smoke and fail to generate enough electricity to avert blackouts. Now, if...
View Article'Major' coal find under Firth of Forth
An energy firm has announced plans to extract gas from under the waters of the Firth of Forth following a major coal find. Cluff Natural Resources said a report by independent assessors estimated there...
View ArticleCoal gas boom in China holds climate change risks
Deep in the hilly grasslands of remote Inner Mongolia, twin smoke stacks rise more than 200 feet into the sky, their steam and sulfur billowing over herds of sheep and cattle. Both day and night, the...
View ArticlePlans to burn coal under the Firth of Forth in UK’s spark environmental uproar
Environmental groups have described plans by an energy firm to extract enough gas to power millions of homes from a massive new coal find off the Scottish coast as “irresponsible”. Cluff Natural...
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