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APRIL 4, 2016

The idea is to replace the blast furnaces with an alternative process, using hydrogen produced from “clean” electricity. The specific investment and operating costs of direct reduction plants are low compared to integrated steel plants and are more suitable for many developing countries where supplies of coking coal are limited.

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AUGUST 31, 2020

Natural gas does produce about 28% less CO2 emissions than heating oil and 50% less than coal for the same amount of energy when burned. Further, natural gas can be used to keep the power grid stable as solar and wind power fluctuate.

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MAY 9, 2024

Space-based solar power is an idea so beautiful, so tantalizing that some argue it is a wish worth fulfilling. Ideas to put megawatt-scale systems in GEO sometime in the 2030s have been floated but not yet funded. It would take two or three of these giant satellites to replace one large retiring coal or nuclear power station.

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MARCH 4, 2011

And of course that was before the Death Wish Congress took power with their Founding Father’s endorsed mission to destroy the government from the inside out to prove that government is indeed the problem. They’re not only not fighting them, they’re wrapping their coal dusted arms around it.

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AUGUST 12, 2015

While its increased burning of coal was known to exacerbate mercury emissions and air pollution, the MIT-led team estimates that Asia produces more than double the mercury emissions previously estimated. Given the pollution in China and India and increased use of coal, it does make sense. —Noelle Selin.

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APRIL 25, 2013

The 1,000 wind turbines that the spheres could anchor could, on average, replace a conventional on-shore coal or nuclear plant. Slocum and some of his students built a 30-inch-diameter prototype in 2011, which functioned well through charging and discharging cycles, demonstrating the feasibility of the idea.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Unfortunately, no economically feasible reforming catalyst is available for converting diesel and coal-based fuels into hydrogen-rich synthesis gas necessary for use in SOFCs.

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APRIL 3, 2009

The basic idea behind ILUC is that biofuels use crops that might otherwise go to traditional uses, such as animal feed. Indirect effects analysis concludes that a new coal-burning power plant will supply the lost electricity, with a huge resulting GHG release. An uproar resulted in the related academic and business communities.

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APRIL 5, 2013

Tires have a better heating value than biomass or coal, and they contain a high content of volatile gasses. TyGRE’s main idea is to couple a second thermal process—plasma synthesis of silicon carbide—to the preliminary waste tire gasification.

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JUNE 20, 2010

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 73% of Adults believe it is at least Somewhat Important for the country to change its dependency on fossil fuels like coal, gas and oil in the near future. 36% don’t think that’s a good idea. 36% don’t think that’s a good idea. Another 23% are not sure.

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MARCH 4, 2011

And of course that was before the Death Wish Congress took power with their Founding Father’s endorsed mission to destroy the government from the inside out to prove that government is indeed the problem. They’re not only not fighting them, they’re wrapping their coal dusted arms around it.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

TIGAS makes it possible to produce high quality, high value gasoline from natural gas, shale gas, associated gas, coal, pet coke or even biomass. In a 2003 technical review for NREL, Spath and Dayton noted that the process was developed with the idea that future plants would be constructed in remote areas for recovery of low-cost natural gas.

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AUGUST 23, 2013

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) and UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) made the awards following an “Ideas Lab” that focused on new approaches for dealing with the challenges of nitrogen in the growing global food demand. NSF solely awarded one of the four projects.

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JANUARY 15, 2023

But some nuclear advocates feel that placing too many nuclear eggs in a single megaproject’s basket is a bad idea. In 2018, US Congress mandated that the USNRC create a new process specifically for new, future reactor designs. Hence the name: small modular reactors (SMRs).

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

The new process produces sugars that can be fermented to biofuels and a solid fuel suitable as a coal substitute. The big idea is to develop small, efficient biorefineries that can process local biomass, saving the cost and trouble of transporting and storing biomass from a larger region.

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MAY 29, 2012

Eighty percent of those emissions came from coal, making China the consumer of about half the world’s coal. While the United States created the idea of cap and trade, he says, “ just as many of our best innovations are produced in China, they may beat us in implementing such a system. we’re really being left behind.”.

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

Coal-fired power plants currently generate approximately 50% of the electricity in the United States. While coal is a cheap and abundant resource, the continued reliance upon coal as an energy source could potentially have serious consequences in terms of global warming.

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JANUARY 2, 2011

Gasification is emerging as a core technology for the production of chemicals and cleaner power, and refers to a process for converting solid fuels, including coal, biomass, and wastes, into either fuel gas (containing CH 4 and some N 2 usually) or syngas (containing mainly H 2 and CO) for subsequent conversion into fuels and chemicals.

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JANUARY 24, 2012

the shipping of grain, ore, coal and so on—which result directly from the expansion of the canal. Currently, much research into carbon reduction is focused on fairly radical ideas but good, solid engineering, hull design and optimisation in particular, still has a major role to play in achieving the goal of reducing emissions.

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APRIL 6, 2018

A number of groups and organizations, including some that are Republican, Libertarian, or conservative, have promoted the idea of a revenue-neutral carbon tax, with a variety of perspectives on how revenue neutrality should work in practice. Emissions reductions are largely independent of the uses of the revenues modeled.

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AUGUST 25, 2011

The US Department of Energy has selected 16 projects for almost $29 million in funding to develop advanced post-combustion technologies for capturing carbon dioxide from coal–fired power plants. The application of ultrasonic energy forces dissolved CO 2 into gas bubbles. DOE share: $1,620,794; recipient share: $422,269. Battelle (PNNL).

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APRIL 16, 2014

emissions from coal seams during the drilling process—that are not captured in the inventory development process. This is another example pointing to the idea that a large fraction of the total emissions is coming from a small fraction of shale gas production components that are in an anomalous condition.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

said Dr. Hansen this same week testifying to Congress and that’s not all he said. Dr. Hansen is giving us 12 months to get our act together: “ The next President and Congress must define a course next year in which the United States exerts leadership commensurate with our responsibility for the present dangerous situation.

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JULY 28, 2009

Of the installed capacity of just above 12,000 MW, approximately 49% (5,893 MW) is coal fired, 39% (4,686 MW) is gas-fired, 7% (869 MW) is hydro, and 4% (497 MW) is wind powered. More than 90% of electricity in Alberta is produced by methods that emit greenhouse gases: burning coal, oil or natural gas. system as much as possible.

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JANUARY 22, 2011

Since its first funding opportunity announcement in April 2009, the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy) has received scores of promising ideas for the next generation of energy technologies. However, ARPA-E can only fund a fraction of these promising ideas at the levels required.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

The energy/climate debate of rent years has been dominated by the idea that the price of fossil fuels must be raised to reflect the full cost of their use. One specific idea the team advocates is a regional approach to managing and financing the intermediate stages of innovation. —Richard Lester.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Our model will give an idea of the big picture savings, and whether there are incentives that can be provided to make sure the savings are captured. For example, are the benefits of fuel cells the same in Washington state, which gets much of its power from hydroelectricity, as in West Virginia, which is dominated by coal?

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JUNE 26, 2010

The authors highlight three possible strategies for CO 2 conversion by physico-chemical approaches: sustainable (or renewable) synthetic methanol; syngas production derived from flue gases from coal-, gas- or oil-fired electric power stations; and photochemical production of synthetic fuels. This same analysis (Pearson et al.

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MARCH 6, 2010

If Congress establishes a GHG emission cap-and-trade program, only sources not covered by the cap could generate offsets. Although Congress could address GHG emissions with alternative policies—e.g., Although Congress could address GHG emissions with alternative policies—e.g., what would have happened anyway). 3) Measurement.

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MARCH 27, 2023

Transcript Eliza Strickland: Technology to combat climate change got a big boost this year when the US Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act , which authorized more than 390 billion for spending on clean energy and climate change. One of the big winners was a technology called carbon capture and storage. Witte: I think so.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

said Dr. Hansen this same week testifying to Congress and that’s not all he said. Dr. Hansen is giving us 12 months to get our act together: “ The next President and Congress must define a course next year in which the United States exerts leadership commensurate with our responsibility for the present dangerous situation.

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MAY 6, 2011

“When you burn coal, you’re burning Selaginella’s ancestors.” We have a much better idea with Selaginella which genes evolved only in angiosperms. ” —Jody Banks. Plants need vascular tissues to be tall, to transport nutrients from roots to leaves.

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MARCH 15, 2010

Green Car Congress recently had a quick conversation with John Warren, Director of Government Relations & Project Development for Osage Bio Energy in Glen Allen, VA. An advanced biofuel has a carbon footprint that is 50% or less of conventional gasoline and OBE plans to start the certification process by Q4 2010.

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APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J. Reduced Output.

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APRIL 16, 2009

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , which regulates interstate transmission of electricity, is on board with the idea. February 17, 2009 7:03 am Link Smart Grid An Invaluable Idea Worldwide / Buildings could become the new power plants BRUSSELS ? Electrifying the entire vehicle fleet would provide more than three times the U.S.’s

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APRIL 22, 2010

This figure includes subsidies to lower the prices of petroleum products, kerosene or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), typically in developing countries, as well as subsidies to the oil, gas or coal industries, provided by many governments in both developing and developed countries. Some data exist on most types of fossil fuel subsidies.

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JULY 17, 2015

The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. We also mined or extracted and burned coal and oil, releasing millions of years of stored solar energy indiscriminately, altering Earth’s climate.

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