By charles the moderator We missed this story in May, but in order to replace the use of coal in the UK, power stations are being refitted to burn wood…
Tag: Fossil fuel power station
EPA sues Oklahoma utility for obeying the law
Guest post by David Middleton Just when you think that the EPA cannot possibly get any more idiotic… U.S. EPA sues OG&E over work at Oklahoma coal power plants Tue…
'plug-and-play' CO2 Scrubbers
From MIT, while “plug-and-play” is cited, it’s just a paper. Getting the carbon out of emissions Proposed method could be more efficient than previous systems and easier to retrofit in…
Lords a leapin
Guest post by Mike Jonas From the UK’s BBC comes this news item: Trillion-euro shortfall facing EU energy sector – Lords Committee Under the obligatory photo of chimneys spewing steam,…
Germany To Open Six More Coal Power Stations In 2013
By Paul Homewood RWE’s new lignite power station opened in Neurath in 2012 Germany’s dash for coal continues apace. Following on the opening of two new coal power stations in…
The Washington Post Eilperin emissions trick
Dave Burton, via his Facebook page writes: The Washington Post’s caption says “…emissions spew from the smokestacks at… coal-fired power plant…” Do you want to know what propaganda looks like?…
Really? 'Climate Change Causing Blackouts' – but see the real culprit
From GlobalWarmingIsReal.com, a rather hilarious take on what that 0.8C of temperature increase in the last century is doing. Who knew the global electric grid was so fragile that it…
Carbon capture scrapped in the UK, "…descended into farce"
All they needed was unlimited money and it would have worked… From the BBC:
Breakthough solution for power plants – pump the CO2 into the sea…oh, wait
From the EPA might have something to say about that department…this press release from LNL suggests dumping tons of Calcium Bicarbonate as a byproduct of CO2 scrubbing into the oceans…
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