To arrive at the cleanest version of coal technology, Skyonic pioneered a process involving a chemical you use to wipe out tough hair clogs in your bathroom sink.READ»
For every happy ending Chilean miner story, there's a more gruesome tragedy. But a fresh injection of $23.9 million for coal-to-natural gas processing could help Ciris Energy increase the safety of coal mining and make natural gas production more economical.READ»
It could be the answer to global warming -- but researchers at Duke University say captured carbon could also leak into groundwater aquifers, rendering water undrinkable.READ»
The FutureGen clean coal project just won't die. The nearly decade-old project has been killed, reborn, and reshaped so many times that we almost forgot it was still around. But it is--albeit in a less ambitious form.READ»
We didn't have a problem when a company called Lorax Motors popped up to sell the Lorax Motor Works Hauler, a recumbent tricycle outfitted with a solar panel that powers an onboard electric assist motor. Solar tricycles don't ...READ»
The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that it wants to speed up the implementation of carbon capture and storage with a $3 billion grant for three large-scale CCS projects.READ»
Clean coal is the most elusive of green energy technologies--so elusive that nobody is sure if it's even possible. A New Jersey-based startup called Carbozyme not only thinks it is, the company also believes that human blood holds ...READ»
Does clean coal exist? We might soon have the chance to find out now that the U.S. Department of Energy's FutureGen clean coal plant project has been revived. FutureGen's future appeared grim last year when the Bush ...READ»
The Coen Brothers, better known for the mordant comedy of Fargo and the epicly bleak No Country for Old Men, just directed a short commercial taking the idea of "clean" coal to task. While many have noted the sheer ...READ»
