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Air Products to acquire Shell’s coal gasification technology business and patent portfolio for liquids (residue) gasification; coal-to-fuels in China

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Air Products will acquire Royal Dutch Shell’s Coal Gasification Technology business as well as Shell’s patent portfolio for Liquids (Residue) Gasification. As a leading industrial gas company, Air Products has extended its onsite supply model to use coal gasification to generate synthesis gas (syngas) for major projects.

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Baker Institute team says fossil fuel subsidies need global reform

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A decade later, fossil fuels continue to constitute 80% of global energy consumed—as they have since about 1910, when coal consumption surpassed that of biofuels, the researchers wrote. Costs ranged from a low of 0.3% 5 consumer of oil,” Krane said.

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Obama Announces Steps to Boost Biofuels, Clean Coal; RFS2, BCAP, BIWG and Carbon Capture and Storage Task Force

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In addition, President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum creating an Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage to develop a comprehensive and coordinated federal strategy to speed the development and deployment of advanced lower-emission coal technologies. Feedstock Production Systems – USDA (REE and FS).

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Global CO2 emissions up 3% in 2011; per capita CO2 emissions in China reach EU levels

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tonnes per capita—within the range of 6 to 19 tonnes per capita emissions of the major industrialized countries. The largest growth took place in China (+22%), Saudi Arabia (+13%) and Japan (+12%). Coal consumption increased globally by 5.4 % in 2011, which is an above average growth, and accounts for 30.3%

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PHEV's and Water Consumption

Plug In Partners

That’s because coal-fired and nuclear power plants that use steam to drive a turbine typically use water—vast amounts of water—to cool and condense the steam at the exhaust." The study uses a range of 1.4 Or in Saudi Arabia where they use massive water flooding? And here's the disclaimer, followed by the restatement.

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UK, Saudi team shows hydrocarbon wax is a viable, safe medium for on-board hydrogen storage

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The F-T wax can be manufactured using renewable energy and any carbon-containing resources including biomass, CO 2 , natural gas, coal—and the resulting carbon residue from the hydrogen-depleted wax.

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Battery metal price plunge is closing mines and stalling deals – ET Auto

Baua Electric

As the longer-term demand outlook for old stalwarts iron ore and coal has dimmed, an explosive new demand story for materials ranging from copper to lithium presented an opportunity for growth as governments and manufacturers around the world rushed to secure future supplies. Sigma Lithium Corp.

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