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Air pollution regulations over last decade in Chinese city has halved health costs

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As a result, concentrations of particulate matter (PM 10 ) declined by more than half, from 196 µg/m 3 in 2001 to 89 µg/m 3 in 2010, as measured at eight sites throughout the city. Particulate matter is released by coal-burning plants and other sources. The cost of premature death due to air pollution decreased by 3.83

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China Industry Body Questions Shells Coal to Liquids Technology

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The China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association (CPCIA) is proposing limiting any further purchases of Shell’s coal gasification technology following problems at half of the plants using the technology. Coal gasification has yet to be widely adopted on a commercial scale.Shell (China) Ltd denied there were flaws in its technology.

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Muons and ADNA proposing using accelerator-driven subcritical reactor for heat for production of synthetic fuels and chemicals

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biomass or coal). Conceptual F-T production using process heat from GEM*STAR and coal as a feedstock, from a 2010 ADNA presentation. The Chinese ADS program was started in the first half of 2011. Meplan (2001) Review: Basics of accelerator driven subcritical reactors. Muons, Inc. , Click to enlarge. Nifenecker, S.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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9 ] In addition, the complex, deliberate, and lengthy publishing cycle of the IPCC’s Assessment Reports—which have so far been produced in 1990, 1995, 2001, and 2007—has not kept pace with the abrupt acceleration of many key indicators of climate change. ºC in 2020, and 2.3 ºC in 2050, as compared to 2000 temperatures.

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