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Turning Black Coal Green
Turning Black Coal Green Coal, the 19th century's fuel of choice, is still going strong in the 21st. The U.S. is by far the world´s biggest source of the fossil fuel, mining 1.1 billion tons of it a...
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Europe Returns to Coal
Coal Plant Melancholic OptimistIn a slow-motion shock to environmentalists worldwide, European countries are turning back to coal to fire new power plants. At a time when India and China are ramping...
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Good News About the Environment
The Giant Coal Plant Wind energy, tidal energy, solar—the world is embracing large-scale green power. Oh wait, maybe we spoke too soon. Tata Mundra, the largest coal-fired energy plant built in...
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Flying the Coal-Fired Skies
Off Oil, On Coal The Air Force uses more fuel than any other branch of the military—2.5 billion gallons in 2007 alone. John MacNeill In the not-so-distant future, cars could run on electricity, power...
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Poo Power
Poo is powerful stuff. That's cow poo to be exact, though scientists say other animals' waste could also be used as an environmentally friendly energy source. 121 facilities in the U.S. are already...
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Cleaner Fossil Fuels
Capture the Carbon The Dynegy power plant in Moss Landing, California, could be the first to use Calera's carbon-to-cement emissions-scrubbing technology Courtesy Steve Marra The Big Picture:...
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Human Blood May Hold the Secret to Clean Coal
Carbon Captured Christopher Gould/Getty Images As geologists probe the world's rocky sediments for spots to safely store carbon dioxide underground, engineers are working on the first step of the...
View ArticleBacteria Found Turning Coal and Carbon into Cleaner Natural Gas
It's been a big week for bacteria. Last week, a Canadian geo-scientist proposed using carbon-eating, methane-excreting microbes to turn crude into cleaner natural gas while still in the well. Now,...
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Radio-Style System of Communication Via Magnetic Waves Demonstrated in Deep...
MagneLink The MagneLink system transmits magnetic waves through the Earth to allow wireless text and voice communication from deep within mines. Lockheed Martin After 13 miners were trapped in a coal...
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How Power Happens: Tracing the Sources of U.S. Energy
Energy Production and Consumption Worldwide Although the amounts seem small, they are all in quads. One quad is equal to one quadrillion BTUs, or the amount of energy in eight billion gallons of...
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The Last Drops: How to Bridge the Gap Between Oil and Green Energy
Oil Economy Oil threatens the environment, destabilizes nation, and is in dwindling supply. It also provides 35 percent of the power we use on Earth. Oil won't run our world forever, but as we make...
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Nanotube Paint Can Spot Structural Defects and Alert Authorities Before...
Nano Paint Mohamed Saafi of the University of Strathclyde examines a piece of material coated with a new nano paint, which can detect structural damage when electrodes are attached. University of...
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2013 Prediction: Energy Levels The Field
Natural Gas Power Science and technology have utterly transformed human life in the past few generations, and forecasts of the future used to be measured in decades. But big changes arrive faster and...
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Flames Shaped By Electricity Help Coal Plants Burn Cleaner
Flame Oscar, CC BY-SA 3.0One company is developing a cheap way to reduce pollution from power plants—and it does so by controlling the shape of fire. Okay, so that's not as magical as it sounds. As...
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Although we still have much progress to make on reducing emissions, new research suggests the situation could be worse. According to a study by the Desert Research Institute,…
View ArticleFlying the Coal-Fired Skies
In the not-so-distant future, cars could run on electricity, power plants on wind and solar energy, and city buses on zero-emission hydrogen fuel cells. But airplanes? Those…
View ArticlePoo Power
Poo is powerful stuff. That's cow poo to be exact, though scientists say other animals' waste could also be used as an environmentally friendly energy source. 121 facilities…
View ArticleCleaner Fossil Fuels
Carbon-restricting legislation, if enacted, will discourage the use of coal, the dirtiest of all fossil fuels. Natural gas is cleaner but still emits carbon dioxide when…
View ArticleHuman Blood May Hold the Secret to Clean Coal
As geologists probe the world's rocky sediments for spots to safely store carbon dioxide underground, engineers are working on the first step of the process: separating pure…
View ArticleBacteria Found Turning Coal and Carbon into Cleaner Natural Gas
It's been a big week for bacteria. Last week, a Canadian geo-scientist proposed using carbon-eating, methane-excreting microbes to turn crude into cleaner natural gas while…
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