Hodel's Summit Power Group aims to build the first low-emissions coal-gasification power plant in oil-rich west Texas.
If it opens as planned, in 2011, China will have the most high-tech low-emissions coal-fired plant in the world.
The Democrats are fielding Heidi Heitkamp, a cheery former state attorney-general who now helps run a low-emission coal-fired power plant.
Promising, low-emissions coal-to-liquids technology with strong support in Congress.
Some modest support comes from the expiration of low-priced coal contracts, in addition to the rule, said Morgan Stanley.
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Last year it yielded 21 million tons of low-quality coal that was hauled by rail to power stations slaking the country's desperate hunger for energy.
By 2050, 82% of our energy should come from sources including renewable energy and low-carbon coal, achieved through the use of carbon capture and storage.
It has created a network of a dozen Chinese and U.S. companies to develop joint business ventures to build advanced, low-carbon coal technology in China and around the world.
Blankenship, making a contrarian bet that the supply of low-sulfur coal will fall even faster than demand as more eastern miners fold up shop, has bought mines in West Virginia.
And developing basic low-cost pollution technology for coal-fired power generation in the third world would probably get more bang for the pollution buck than just about anything else.
At that time underground coal gasification (UCG, also known as in-situ coal gasification or ISCG) was increasingly seen as a relatively low-impact way of tapping the huge US coal resource, while potentially managing emissions.
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The argument is that nuclear, whatever its other drawbacks, is a low-emitter - so any carbon alternative, such as coal, must be higher.
Many provinces are suffering power shortages because producers have little incentive to generate electricity given the high cost of coal and the low state-mandated electricity price.
Samasource takes work orders from a U.S. tech company, breaks them down into simple tasks it has dubbed microwork, and sends it off to a partner in say, the rural Indian state of Jharkhand, where most of the other jobs are low-paid, backbreaking work in the coal mines.
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Chemicals may be a low-margin game, but when you transform coal and other substances into liquid fuels there are huge chemical runoffs.
In an earlier report, the Royal Academy of Engineering had mapped out the scale of the task involved in moving to a low-carbon electricity supply - with a mix of energy efficiency, renewables, nuclear and clean coal.
Moreover, much of the coal he bought from Burlington is low-quality lignite, a brownish fuel one step removed from peat, which can't be transported because it tends to spontaneously combust.
Another is to allow local people to be able to choose low-carbon local energy sources, rather than being obliged to rely on large-scale electricity grids run on polluting coal.
One reason is that thermal-coal prices are near a three-year low as Chinese demand has slackened.
Older, inefficient coal plants will be retired soon and replaced with low-carbon solutions.
Natural gas is a potent greenhouse gas, so leaks can undermine much of the low-carbon benefits that come from using it to replace fuels like coal and oil.
While the plunge was more abrupt with Patriot, comparable coal credits have also seen sharp declines amid historically low natural gas prices and a regulatory environment that is pushing a coal-to-gas transition.
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Abundant, relatively low-priced supplies now make natural gas a highly competitive alternative to both nuclear and wind power and even to coal generation.
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But with Apple moving to install giant solar arrays and a fuel cell power station at its iDataCenter in North Carolina as part of an effort to create a coal-free iCloud, Greenpeace on Thursday issued a report that gives a slight upgrade to low marks the group previously gave the company.
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