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1 Combet in dispute with coal industry 04/04/09 17
2 Coal Seam Gas Still Hot - BG Tries Again 10/24/08 45
3 Hawaii Bans New Coal Plants, Plans to be 70% Renewable by 2030 10/23/08 52
4 German plant could point to "clean coal" future 10/20/08 41
5 Future Still Bright For Coal Seam Gas ? 10/18/08 48
 
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Recycling Waste Heat Via Cogeneration

Solve Climate has an interesting post on cogeneration in the US and the - Co-Generation: Clean as Wind, Reliable as Coal. The title isn"t strictly true - while it can improve the efficiency of many forms of power generation, CHP... Read more

Coal | | Saturday, 13 September 2008

Clean Loy Yang costs huge

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Herald SunWednesday 27/8/2008 Page: 62THE boss of one of Victoria"s biggest power plants says it will be "very, very tough" for the state"s brown coal-fired electricity generators to cut carbon output by 20 per cent by 2020 to meet Rudd... Read more

Coal | | Thursday, 11 September 2008

Reliance on coal could scuttle us

AgeFriday 18/7/2008 Page: 13It would be shortsighted of Australia to rely on coal and not other energy sources.THE Rudd Government"s green paper on a "carbon pollution reduction scheme", and the methods to achieve this reduction, have some strongly innovative elements.... Read more

Coal | | Augustonday, 11 August 2008

A huge bet on coal seam gas

BG"s drawn out takeover attempt for Origin Energy has finally bitten the dust, with Origin instead selling a large stake in its coal seam methane (coal seam gas) assets to Conoco Phillips, with the gas destined for a large LNG... Read more

Coal | | Wednesday, 10 September 2008

Coal To Plastic In China

My recent post on bioplastics had one commenter at TOD noting that China is looking at producing plastic from coal (and that Pakistan claims to have the world"s 4th largest coal reserves).Given China"s interest in coal to liquids I thought... Read more

Coal | | Septemberonday, 1 September 2008

ETS to make coal plant "white elephant"

AustralianTuesday 26/8/2008 Page: 4THE proposed federal emissions trading scheme would turn a $750 million Chinese-backed Victorian power station into a taxpayer-funded white elephant, according to legal advice. Lawyers acting for a coalition of environment groups have told the state and... Read more

Coal | | Wednesday, 10 September 2008

Coal-fired stations too risky, says AGL

Sydney Morning HeraldThursday 21/8/2008 Page: 4ONE OF the country"s largest electricity suppliers has said buying the state"s coal-fired stations ranks as a low priority because of the financial risks of carbon emissions trading. The managing director of AGL Energy, Michael... Read more

Coal | | TUSEDAY, 9 September 2008

Peak Energy, Coal Reserves, and Climate Change

The blog The Oil Drum has posted a writing by Dave Rutledge, the Chair for the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at Caltech. In this post and in a YouTube video Rutledge makes a few basic claims or revelations,... Read more

Coal | | Friday, 28 December 2007

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