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Long coal train, South Dakota, 1946. Carol M Highsmith, American (Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.) SSA Marine, which is 51% owned by Goldman Sachs, has applied for federal and state permits to build facilities at Cherry Point to ship coal from the Rocky Mountains to China, thereby making the Pacific [...] New regulations may force up to 67 coal plants generating 24 GW of power to shut down. This is a good thing, except, where will the replacement energy come from? No one seems to have given much thought to this. For example, an AES New York subsidiary with 1 GW in coal plants has filed [...] Big Coal and the City of Los Angeles are threatening Bryce Canyon National Park. They’ve proposed building a 3,500 acre coal strip mine right next to the park to extract coal to power L.A. If built, the mine would turn southern Utah into an industrial zone — jeopardizing the park, tourism, and the health [...] The Oil Drum Like everything else in China, coal production statistics are simply immense. China now consumes and produces close to 50% of all the coal in the world. Thus, changes in Chinese consumption and / or production may have a dramatic impact upon the global coal market. If their production ever [...] The pro-nuclear power Atomic Insights Blog on why coal is dirty, pollutes massively, and is a poor energy source in the first place. Coal is an inherently dirty fuel that is naturally contaminated with many dangerous and polluting chemicals. It has a relatively low energy density, even when compared to its fossil fuel competitors. [...] What a great idea. Use existing coal plants to burn biomass as fuel instead. Ontario will have one plant completely converted by 2012, with more coming. The biomass comes from leftovers from foresting and agriculture, with switchgrass a possibility as a crop too. [...] The idea is to try and suck a gas directly from an un-mined coal field instead of mining it. This might eliminate the toxicity health and environmental problems caused by mining coal, whether by traditional means or even worse; by mountaintop removal. Sounds crazy at first glance, but read on! [...] You can put a fork in a gigantic new coal fired power plant proposed for rural Sugard, Utah, because it’s done. Yesterday the Utah Supreme Court struck a major blow against the plant by ordering it to start back at square one in the pollution permit application process. It’s because trying to do “clean coal” [...] Brazil Pellet has developed a way to process bagasse, the waste from sugar cane processing into pellets for use in coal plants. They are thinking very big, like 520,000 tons of pellets a year that would produce 2,420 GW of power. Most bagasse now is dumped where it decomposes and produces methane. Burning it instead [...] This innovative and worthwhile project is being funded with stimulus money. The project is being hosted at the 995-megawatt Cholla Power Plant in northeastern Arizona. Early results indicate that the algae are able to capture 70 metric tons of carbon dioxide per pond acre per year. [...] |  | ||||
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