Coal not going away anytime soon despite renewables push
Coal: Can't live with it and can't live without it—at least not yet.
Coal: Can't live with it and can't live without it—at least not yet.
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 16, 2015
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An ultrasound sensor for detecting dangerous cracks in structures such as aircraft engines, oil and gas pipelines and nuclear plants has been developed by researchers at the University of Strathclyde – with inspiration ...
Engineering
Aug 18, 2015
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Heat-trapping pollution from U.S. power plants hit a 27-year low in April, the Department of Energy announced Wednesday.
Environment
Aug 5, 2015
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The heat generated by burning a fossil fuel is surpassed within a few months by the warming caused by the release of its carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to new work from Carnegie's Xiaochun Zhang and Ken Caldeira ...
Environment
Jun 2, 2015
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California's electrical grid has a problem - a nice problem, but a problem nonetheless: The state often has too much power.
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 2, 2015
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Interlinkage of the power and gas grids is planned to make electricity supply sustainable and robust in the future. Fluctuating amounts of wind and solar power, for instance, might be stored in the form of the chemical energy ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jan 9, 2015
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A study in the latest issue of the American Economic Review used recent state regulatory changes in electricity markets as a laboratory to evaluate which factors can contribute to a regulation causing a bigger mess than the ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jan 8, 2015
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Natural gas power plants produce substantial amounts of gases that lead to global warming. Replacing old coal-fired power plants with new natural gas plants could cause climate damage to increase over the next decades, unless ...
Environment
Dec 8, 2014
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Long thought a thing of the future, electric cars are becoming mainstream. Sales in the United States of plug-in, electric vehicles nearly doubled last year. Credible forecasts see the number rising within a decade to half ...
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 25, 2014
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Under the right scenario, exporting U.S. coal to power plants in South Korea could lead to a 21 percent drop in greenhouse gas emissions compared to burning the fossil fuel at plants in the United States, according to a new ...
Environment
Aug 19, 2014
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