The top graph depicts CTL in a no policy scenario; the bottom graph, for CTL in a world climate policy scenario. Credit: Chen et al., 2011 Click to enlarge. A new assessment of the viability of coal-to-liquids (CTL) technology by researchers from the MIT Joint Program on the Science ...
Then in 2008, the wide commercialization of fracking for natural gas caused production of natural gas in the US to surge, and the price to collapse, reaching multi-decade lows in recent years, currently in the range of $1.70 per million Btu – compared to the $2.20-range in the late ...
BP has to improve sharply their data, as so the EIA, but in a lesser manner. Figure 19: China coal ratio t/toe from production & consumption from EIA The graph from Chinese customs shows the sharp increase in 2009 of imports from Mongolia, Indonesia and Australia (and also South Africa ...
In the United States onshore wind power is already on price parity with electricity generated by coal and, given the pace of technical change, solar power is expected to reach price parity with coal by 2020. Not surprisingly, the date corresponds with the Durban deadline for a new treaty on...
basic principle of making the consumer the focus of strategies that will be the most effective,“Over the last few years the market price for crystal balls has plummeted. As mentioned previously, I believe a sustainable consumer-centric approach will almost certainly guarantee success in any market...
Chemical Resource Beneficiation, North West University, Potchefstroom 2531, South Africa 3 HySA Infrastructure Centre of Competence, Centre for Nanostructures and Advanced Materials (CeNAM), Chemicals Cluster, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria 0001, South Africa ...
The UV–Vis absorbance peak at 360 nm indicated the synthesis of SiNPs from the CFA in Figure 3a. The particle size distribution of the SiNPs, shown in the PSA graph in Figure 3b, reveals that the average size of the particle was 202.5 nm, and the polydispersity index (PDI) was 0.192...
in the metallurgical coal industry. Both commodities have experienced growth, however, the metallurgical coal price has only grown 44% compared to an astronomical growth of 382% for iron ore prices since 2005 [2,3]. A correlation measure for price movements over the past decade between the two...