4,138 posts tagged coal
SubscribeScientists Develop Low-Cost Version of CCS
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Buckeye Mining Expected Baard Energy’s Proposed $5 billion Coal Mine To Fuel Conversion Plant
http://paguntaka.org/ 2008/ 05/ 18/ buckeye-mining-expected-baard-energy%e2%80%9…Buckeye Mining gets grant for coal transloading facility. The coal transloading facility is to be located on 18 acres of Columbiana County Port Authority property being leased by Buckeye Industrial. The property is located in the Port Authority’s riverfront industrial park in Wellsville.
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A Carbon Diet Needs a Healthy Serving of Nuclear Energy
http://pajamasmedia.com/ blog/ a-carbon-diet-only-works-with-a-serving-of-nuclea…A Carbon Diet Needs a Healthy Serving of Nuclear Energy by Nicolas Loris and Jack Spencer Eliminating our dependence on oil and coal is only part of the clean energy equation. It's time that the United States gets serious about nuclear power.
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Rio Tinto to Expand Mining Exploration and Production Capacity at Utah
http://paguntaka.org/ 2008/ 05/ 18/ rio-tinto-to-expand-mining-exploration-and-p…Rio Tinto Group, fending off a $189 billion hostile bid from BHP Billiton Ltd., will expand capacity at its Kennecott U.S. copper unit by 20 percent and more than double the life of the Bingham Canyon mine. Upgrades to a conveyer in the second half will boost refinery capacity to 327,000 metric tons a year, London-based Rio said Friday.
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Foundation Coal Holdings, Coal Mine Exploration and Production in Emerald Mine To Slow Down
http://paguntaka.org/ 2008/ 05/ 18/ foundation-coal-holdings-coal-mine-explorati…Coal production is expected to slow down after a small section of roof collapsed in a Greene County mine. No one was injured in last weekend’s roof collapse. The collapse was in the Emerald Mine, just south of Waynesburg.
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Interstate Power Plans To Install Reduction System for Cut Emision Coal-Fired Plant
http://paguntaka.org/ 2008/ 05/ 18/ interstate-power-plans-to-install-reduction-…Interstate Power and Light said Friday, the company plans to install a catalytic reduction system and low nitrogen oxide burners at the plant near the Mississippi River town of Lansing. The company said the measures are expected to remove more than 90 percent, or more than 3,700 tons, of nitrogen oxide emissions.
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Scientists Develop Low-Cost Version of CCS
http://www.treehugger.com/ files/ 2008/ 05/ better-ccs.phpImage courtesy of melancholic optimist via flickr Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has always been a tough proposition: Scientists and environmentalists worry about the potential leakage from storage sites and its additional fuel requirements, while energy utilities complain about the excessive costs and risks associated with the technology.
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Spin-Free Coal
http://skinnymoose.com/ thinkingoutside/ ?p=782Spin-Free Coal It’s always fun to see someone take a bit of double-talk and rip it into shreds. The target of Kevin Grandia’s scorn at DeSmog Blog is the coal industry and the notion of “clean coal.” It’s an artful and deserved smack down that’s well-worth the few munutes it takes to read.
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Graphics Of The Day: A Carbon Intensifying, 23-Year Vision Of US Energy Use
http://www.treehugger.com/ files/ 2008/ 05/ graphics-carbon-vision-energy.phpThe current US Administration projects a consistent message on the deepening risk of climate crisis: 23 year's worth of forward looking cognitive dissonance. One has only to consider the vision expressed in two simple bar graphics, excerpted here from a presentation given recently by the Director of the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), to see what the whole world clearly senses.
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Sebelius vetoes coal plant bill
http://paguntaka.org/ 2008/ 05/ 17/ sebelius-vetoes-coal-plant-bill/For the third time, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius on Friday vetoed a bill that would have authorized construction of two coal-fired power plants in western Kansas. The bill was the Legislature’s final attempt before adjournment to strip a state regulator of the discretion he used last year to reject — because of concerns about climate change — Sunflower Electric Power Corp.’s project for Holcomb.
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Miner league
http://dettigers.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 17/ miner-league/Somebody please explain Leyland’s infatuation with Zach Miner? Seriously, why do we keep trotting this guy out there? To recap the game, Bonderman gives us a strong outing, pitching 6 innings. He gets in trouble in the 7th, and who do we call on? No, not Rapada and his .93 ERA. No, not Lopez and his 1.85 ERA.
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