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JULY 26, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected eight projects to advance the development of transformational oxy-combustion technologies capable of high-efficiency, low-cost carbon dioxide capture from coal-fired power plants. Washington University. Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group. University of Kentucky Research Foundation.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Coal combustion alone was responsible for half of those deaths, with natural gas and oil combustion accounting for the other half. The study team, led by Dr. Erin McDuffie and Dr. Randall Martin of Washington University in St. Overall, the report indicates that a majority of PM 2.5

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JANUARY 21, 2011

Wison plans to invest in a coal gasification unit to produce syngas per Celanese specs, and Celanese plans to invest approximately US$650 million in an Ethanol Complex using the output from Wison as feedstock and Celanese proprietary technology to produce ethanol for industrial use, and potentially for fuel ethanol. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 27, 2009

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has directed the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) to file a pleading with the US District Court in Washington DC requesting that the mountaintop coal mining “stream buffer zone rule” issued by the Bush Administration be vacated due to being legally defective. Secretary Salazar.

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MAY 24, 2009

Washington Gov. Work with the existing coal-fired plant within Washington that burns over one million tons of coal per year, TransAlta Centralia Generation LLC, to reduce emissions from the company’s coal-fired power plant near Centralia by more than half. Washington’s Leadership on Climate Change.

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JULY 30, 2020

Hydropower generation in Washington State is redispatched to resemble a commonly observed charging/discharge cycle of an energy storage technology. Storage is used in California to meet the peaks set by EVs. Managed charging could reduce the curtailment the most by an additional 16%.

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APRIL 1, 2022

Gas Technology Institute and partners will demonstrate storage of more than 54 megawatt-hours of energy as clean hydrogen produced using natural gas with carbon capture and storage—and its use for load—following in Southern Company Services’ Washington County Cogeneration Facility in McIntosh, Alabama. WE New Energy Inc.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Petroleum is dwindling and you're going to need to make fuel out of coal, natural gas and biomass. The AAFEX tests are funded and managed by NASA’s Fundamental Aeronautics Program, which is part of the agency’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate in Washington, DC. Dan Bulzan, NASA Glenn Research Center and AAFEX project manager.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Congress has provided hundreds of billions of dollars to speed the deployment of clean-energy technologies. Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs. Back to top Earlier this year, you raised a red flag when Congress ordered up a 2.5-year C in this century.

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JULY 29, 2019

C2CNT was founded by Dr. Stuart Licht, a Professor at George Washington University, a former Program Director in Chemistry at the National Science Foundation and a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society. The carbon nanotubes are valued at more than $100,000 per tonne—a thousand-fold greater than coal.

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APRIL 18, 2018

coal, wood, and dung) for cooking and heating. billion people—one in three global citizens—were exposed to household air pollution from the use of solid fuels (for example, coal, wood, charcoal, dung, or other biomass) for cooking and heating. was industrial coal; transportation followed as a close second.

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AUGUST 9, 2013

CCAT is currently leading several significant alternative fuel efforts—a $20-million, five-year coal/biomass to fuel program that tests technologies critical to creating alternative fuels from biomass and fossil sources for the U.S. Solena, a sustainable energy firm headquartered in Washington, D.C.,

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FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In China, burning coal is the biggest contributor to poor air quality. Qiao Ma, a PhD student at the School of Environment, Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, found that outdoor air pollution from coal alone caused an estimated 366,000 deaths in China in 2013. She found that air pollution will cause anywhere from 990,000 to 1.3

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OCTOBER 1, 2013

Lima Energy Company, a subsidiary of USA Synthetic Fuel Corporation in Washington, DC, has signed a contract to supply up to 80 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe) of its “Ultra Clean Synthetic Crude” (UCSC) to Husky Energy’s Lima, Ohio Refinery over ten years.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The Obama Administration will push an energy plan that potentially includes production of oil shale, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told a group of Western governors assembled in Washington at the National Governor’s Association meeting. Let’s put everything on the table.”. Colorado Gov.

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OCTOBER 10, 2009

Natural gas will represent around half of Shell’s total production by 2012, said Shell CEO Peter Voser in a speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC on 8 October. We also offer gasification technology that would enable a cleaner use of coal and more effective application of CO 2 capture technology; and we produce wind power.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

The relationship between Alcoa and CPI was formalized in January 2011, when the two companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation on projects in China and around the world during Chinese President Hu Jintao’s State visit to Washington, D.C.

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

One of the other big business groups the WSJ is talking about is the motley group of US Senators and US Congress members who got their money directly from the oil, gas and coal industry. Now the EPA is about to smack both of you upside the head – and these are only the opening smacks you both have coming.

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JUNE 27, 2014

The gas is produced primarily during the combustion of gasoline in vehicle engines and coal in power plants. The mission flew previously in 2011 over Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, DC; in 2013 over the San Joaquin Valley, California; and in 2013 over Houston, Texas.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

According to a report to Congress by the US Department of Transportation earlier this year— Transportation’s Role in Reducing US Greenhouse Gas Emissions —for the current industry average LPG supply (60% produced from natural gas, 40% from crude oil), GREET 1.8b propane derived from biomass feed stocks) and synthetic propane (e.g.,

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AUGUST 23, 2013

Members of the team are Devaki Bhaya, Carnegie Institution of Washington; John H. The scientists will search Hawaiian volcanoes, American coal seam fires and German fire pits for the elusive heat-lover, in a bid to recover its lost potential. Researchers led by Washington University in St. Louis biologist Himadri B.

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JUNE 2, 2014

Vermont and Washington, DC are not included in this rule because they do not have fossil fuel-fired power plants. The value allocated here in EPA’s goal-setting formula was an average heat rate improvement of 6% for coal steam electric generating units (EGUs). EPA is only proposing goals for states with fossil fuel-fired power plants.

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

Daniel Jaffe, a science and technology professor at University of Washington Bothell, is coauthor of the paper. For example, mercury from coal burning in Asia could rise into the atmosphere and circle the globe several times before it is oxidized, then could come to the surface anywhere.

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OCTOBER 3, 2009

Noting that coal accounts for roughly 25% of the world energy supply and 40% of the carbon emissions. Chu said that it was highly unlikely that the US, Russia, China and India, which account for two-thirds of the coal reserves, “ will turn their back on coal anytime soon.”.for At geological storage densities of CO 2 (0.6

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JUNE 3, 2012

58%) could also reduce the vulnerability because of smaller water demands when compared with coal- and nuclear-fueled stations (with mean efficiencies of ?46% Dry cooling systems or non-freshwater sources for cooling are possible alternatives but may be limited by locally available resources and have costs and performance disadvantages.

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APRIL 11, 2012

A team at George Washington University has demonstrated a new solar process that can produce lime (CaO) for cement without any emission of carbon dioxide, and at lower projected cost than the existing cement industry process. Click to enlarge. Earlier post , earlier post.).

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JULY 24, 2009

Requires that new electricity sources must be as least as clean as natural gas plants, effectively blocking new development of conventional coal. This is similar to legislation passed in Washington and California. Senate Bill 101. House Bill 2626.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Reducing emissions from diesel engines and domestic wood and coal fires is a no-brainer, as there are tandem health and climate benefits. —co-lead author Sarah Doherty of the University of Washington in Seattle. There are exciting opportunities to cool climate by reducing soot emissions but it is not straightforward.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

For example, are the benefits of fuel cells the same in Washington state, which gets much of its power from hydroelectricity, as in West Virginia, which is dominated by coal? Masanet and his team—including Berkeley Lab scientists Jim McMahon, Adam Weber, Chris Marnay and Max Wei—will also consider geographic factors.

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JUNE 13, 2015

Compared with burning coal, natural gas emits about half the carbon dioxide and substantially less soot, mercury and sulfur. If developed in a responsible manner, natural gas can be the critical transition fuel that reduces the environmental impacts of fossil fuels and keeps us on a path toward a decarbonized energy future. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

However, approximately 3 billion people in the world are exposed to air pollution from biomass burning, originating from using wood or coal as cooking fuel in simple stoves, home heating with open fires, deforestation, and agricultural practices.

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JANUARY 8, 2010

In addition to program in support of the coal and electric power industries, the center has expanded over time to address issues in carbon capture and management, electrochemical energy storage, biomass energy and biofuels, and other renewable energy systems such as photovoltaic and thermoelectric power.

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

In a comment on the online story in Aviation Week , Dr. Tom Jarboe from the University of Washington (which is developing its own version of a fusion reactor and will present its results on Friday at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Fusion Energy Conference in St. Resources. Sutherland et al. 2014.03.072.

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JULY 22, 2009

PAHs are chemicals released into the air from the burning of coal, diesel, oil and gas, or other organic substances such as tobacco. It included children who were born to non-smoking black and Dominican-American women age 18 to 35 who resided in Washington Heights, Harlem or the South Bronx in New York.

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JANUARY 10, 2010

Synthetic liquid jet fuels can be made from biomass, natural gas or coal. Verno Systems is a Seattle, Washington-based company which provides non-advocate advisory and management services in the biofuel industry. All of these are known as xTL fuels. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

Since coal and natural gas represent about 70% of all electricity generation nationally, finding cost-effective ways of replacing those fuels and mitigating their emissions will be critical, the book says. Current difficulties in Washington only add to the case for regionalization. —Richard Lester.

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APRIL 30, 2010

of Washington). Zero-Carbon Coal: Innovative Materials & Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT). Coal-fired power plants currently generate approximately 50% of the electricity in the United States. Zero-Carbon Coal: Innovative Materials & Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies.

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