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Original post by pfairley

Original post by pfairley

Original post by pfairley

British Columbia’s generally conservative Liberal Party premier, Gordon Campbell, earned my respect this winter when he banned new coal-fired power plants from releasing CO2 — in effect mandating the use of carbon sequestration (or, as my coverage at TechReview.com indicated, driving planned coal plants to instead burn renewable wood). Now Campbell has gone much further — at least on paper.
Campbell […]

Original post by pfairley

British Columbia’s generally conservative Liberal Party premier, Gordon Campbell, earned my respect this winter when he banned new coal-fired power plants from releasing C̘ — in effect mandating the use of carbon sequestration (or, as my coverage at TechReview.com indicated, driving planned coal plants to instead burn renewable wood). Now Campbell has gone much further — at least on paper.
Campbell […]

Original post by pfairley

Synthetic fuels derived from coal are taking a beating these days, but when it comes to energy solutions one must be careful not to oversimplify, even in the case of coal. Case in point: what looks like an evil in the context of North America’s energy system may offer important advantages to the developing world.
In North America coal synfuels face […]

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What do I mean when I say that we are scared to death of controlling C̘?
Consider the continued construction of conventional coal-fired power plants, which spew 2-3 times as much C̘ skyward per kilowatt-hour of electricity produced than a natural gas fired generator. Despite that, coal remains popular with utilities because the cost of cleaner-burning gas […]

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We are suddenly petrified by carbon dioxide. Not because the risk of climate change is overblown, but because our technological mastery over this simple gas has been vastly undersold. By applying this technological mastery, readily-available carbon-neutral energy sources and efficient vehicles we can stop treating Earth’s atmosphere like a garbage dump, just as cities in the […]

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