Cleanest of all coal-based electric power technologies, gasification has significantly lower levels of air emissions (including volatile mercury), solid wastes, and wastewater.Due to its high efficiencies, gasification also uses less coal to produce the same amount of energy, resulting in lower ...
In addition, the poorest suffer the most from environmental impacts when the affluent use electricity generated by the burning of coal or fly on private jets. On the other hand, billions of people living in poverty or nearly ...
While carbon capture and storage (CCS) technically does work, it is expensive to build new infrastructure and retrofit old plants. There are other dangers associated with burning coal, too. For decades now, clean coal has been a political pipe dream. It’s the idea that coal—our oldest,...
It used to be called stinky town, because the pollution from burning dirty coal was so appalling. But now, if a new pilot plant works, Spremberg, in eastern Germany, could become the birthplace of a clean-coal revolution. Earlier this month, the world’s
The 2.2 billion gallons of water it uses for cooling is raised 16 degrees F on average before being discharged into a lake or river. By warming the water year-round it changes the habitat of that body of water. Coal mining creates tons of hazardous and acidic waste which can contaminate ...
How does clean electricity work? Clean energy is generated through processes that do not pollute the environment and, therefore, do not contribute to climate change. Clean energy also tends to be renewable, meaning it is more resourceful and abundant than more common energy sources, such as coal...
How will you address and satisfy the critics? Education to create an informed public plus demonstrating the benefits and cost of a modern coal based plant are well worth the efforts that the US Department of Energy and our National Laboratories have undertaken. The idea that billions of people ...
Battery storage is what allows renewable energy to provide power even when the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing. It's key to making the electrical grid reliable as we transition away from coal and gas. Ben Tracy examines how battery technology is improving. ...
Clean energy is essential to combating climate change and achieving a sustainable future. But what exactly does it mean? Is clean energy the same as renewable or green energy?
“How does taking 50 properties like that and adding them up make them any more credit-worthy?” said Luke Danielson, a former regulator and president of the nonpartisanSustainable Development Strategies Group. “The biggest risk that they are facing is the market risk that the coal price collap...