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• Siemens to partner with Tenaska on $3.5 billion Ill. project

  
  Behind the Plug — Authority: 124
  Siemens Energy Inc. has been chosen to provide the coal gasification technology at Tenaska’s 730-megawatt Taylorville Energy Center in Christian County, Ill., a news release reports. Taylorville will be one of the nation’s first commercial-scale plants to use both carbon...
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• The facts: Coal-generated power equals affordable electricity in the U.S.

  
  Behind the Plug — Authority: 124
  As leaders from around the globe prepare to convene next month in Copenhagen for the U.N. Climate Change Conference to consider how to best use our energy resources in the coming decades, let’s take a moment to consider how critical...
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• Japan builds technology to bury greenhouse gas emissions

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Swathes of dirty clouds brood over a coal plant in rural Japan but scientists are now hoping to send the pollutants the other way deep into the bowels of Mother Earth.
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• Emissions From Deforestation Less than Commonly Accepted

  
  Features — Authority: 124
  Scientists and non-governmental organizations at the United Nations climate negotiations last week said the commonly accepted figures for greenhouse gas emssions from tropical deforestation are too high. In light of a new analysis published earlier this week in Nature Geoscience, a group including experts on ...
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• Scottish Power in with a Shout for CCS Funding

  
  SUBROSA — Authority: 544
  The main topic of discussion on Newsnicht last night was how Scotland was going to provide power without nuclear. The tory MSPs information was out of date if todays Scotsman is to be believed. Boost to Scots bid for £1bn emissions cash as rival quits race says the paper. Most Scots knew that Scottish ...
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• Energy policy: Atomic dreams

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 154
  "No government has sought to influence me in any way whatever," declared Sir Frank Layfield before giving the go ahead for the last nuclear power station to be built in Britain. His Sizewell B inquiry , which occupied Aldeburghs Snape Maltings for much of the early 1980s, was tortuous and expensive. Its successor, Ed ...
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• Utilities given the nuclear goahead as coal falters

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Utility companies welcomed the Governments commitment to 10 new nuclear power stations as a "significant milestone" but raised concerns that plans to clean up the coal industry may be unrealistic.
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• Clean Coal: Another One Bites the Dust in Britain

  
  WSJ.com: Environmental Capital — Authority: 703
  Britain wants to jumpstart clean coal. Energy companies dont see it happening.
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• ‘We’ve got to get back into the business of making stuff’

  
  Behind the Plug — Authority: 124
  The lack of government investment in energy research is increasing the risk to national security and hindering the creation of breakthrough energy technologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Susan Hockfield told Bloomberg News last week. As we approach Veterans Day,...
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• The Facts: The real origin of ‘clean coal’

  
  Behind the Plug — Authority: 124
  Critics claim that it doesn’t exist, that it’s just a catchphrase concocted by the coal industry. In reality, clean coal technologies have been in use for decades – and we have lots of examples that demonstrate the progress we’ve made...
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• UK carbon capture competition dead on its feet says expert

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Professor Stuart Hazeldine warns only Scottish Power can deliver carbon capture and storage within the governments timetable. From BusinessGreen.com , part of the Guardian Environment Network The UKs carbon capture and storage (CCS) competition is "dead on its feet" with only one of the three projects in the ...
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• ARPA-E Carbon Capture Projects

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 630
  Department of Energys ARPA-E selects 37 projects to pursue breakthroughs that could fundamentally change the way we use and produce energy. This is the first round of projects funded under ARPA-E, which is receiving total of $400 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Five of the 37 Projects are ...
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• Syngas With Carbon Capture at Cook Inlet

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 744
  As the nation looks for ways to burn coal without producing so much carbon dioxide, developers, researchers, and environmentalists are looking at underground coal gasification, or U.C.G., with cautious optimism.
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• ‘We cannot leave Americas energy future to others’

  
  Behind the Plug — Authority: 124
  The United States needs to take immediate steps to secure our energy future, wrote Washington University in St. Louis Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial last week. By increasing our energy independence through the use of...
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• China Pushes for CO2 Storage, Not Emissions Reductions

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 621
  The head of the U.S. delegation at U.N. climate talks in Barcelona this week says China should cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050, reports Reuters.Jonathan Pershing told Reuters that China should cut its GHG emissions by about 50 percent, which would allow for lower targets for poorer countries and give ...
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• Forests in the desert: the answer to climate change?

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 583
  Climate change could be cancelled out in a staggeringly ambitious plan to plant the Sahara desert and Australian outback with treesDavid Adam, guardian.co.uk 4 Nov 09;Some talk of hoisting mirrors into space to reflect sunlight, while others want to cloud the high atmosphere with millions of tonnes of shiny sulphur ...
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• Bacteria: The low-tech fix for high-tech carbon capture?

  
  Greenbang — Authority: 564
  The solution to capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it safely away to prevent dangerous climate change might lie not with advanced technologies but with humble bacteria. That’s the goal of a European initiative, CO2Solstock , that’s looking for ways to use bacteria to capture and store ...
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• Greenwash: Gordon Browns green spin on carbon capture | Fred Pearce

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  UK ministers talk up the carbon capture research programme as if it were already an available technology Gordon Brown is keen to take the high ground on climate change, in the run-up to the Copenhagen climate conference . Witness his eagerness to claim success when European heads of state discussed setting up a ...
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• Forests in the desert: the answer to climate change?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Climate change could be cancelled out in a staggeringly ambitious plan to plant the Sahara desert and Australian outback with trees Some talk of hoisting mirrors into space to reflect sunlight, while others want to cloud the high atmosphere with millions of tonnes of shiny sulphur dust. Now, scientists could have ...
  6 days ago

• Bury Our Carbon At Sea

  
  ECO-CAN News — Authority: 139
    The world’s climate cabal gathers in Copenhagen next month to debate what to do with the 30 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide the human race produces every year by burning fossil fuels. Half of this man-made exhaust is absorbed by oceans, plants and trees. The rest contributes to the atmospheric build-up of ...
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