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Chemistry World
October 2007
Bernard Bulkin |
Can Chemistry Save the Planet? If we are to scale back our greenhouse gas emissions without society juddering to a halt, 21st century transport will need 21st century fuels. And of all the sciences, it is chemistry that is best placed to deliver them.   |
Scientific American
May 15, 2006
Gunjan Sinha |
Pumping Coal Coming soon to the U.S.: Cleaner diesel from dirty coal. |
Chemistry World
July 18, 2006
Katharine Sanderson |
Membranes Weed Out Carbon Dioxide Chemical membranes that can capture the carbon dioxide emitted by fossil fuels have been developed by scientists, who say that they are substantially more efficient than conventional membranes. |
Popular Mechanics
December 12, 2008
Melinda Wenner |
U.N. Puts Greenhouse-Free Clean Coal on the Back Burner U.N. plans to sign a new international climate treaty next year, and in negotiating recommendations delegates found common ground in many areas. |
Popular Mechanics
July 21, 2007
Tyghe Trimble |
Clean Coal: How to Make Rock into Biofuel Despite a Senate battle leaving out important funding for liquid coal research in the new energy bill, gasification remains an important engineering process to our green future. |
Geotimes
September 2006
Megan Sever |
Coal's Staying Power Whatever technologies "win" as economies around the world continue to grow, and other energy source prices remain high, coal production, consumption and prices will all continue to rise, despite continuing concerns about pollution from coal-fired power plants. |
Chemistry World
April 7, 2010
Kate McAlpine |
New form for an old fuel Colloidal coal-water suspensions may rise to the challenges of clean coal technology with the help of a new production method. |
Geotimes
March 2003 |
Demonstrating Carbon Sequestration Estimates are that human activity emits 7 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year. One proposed method for reducing how much of the greenhouse gas ends up in the atmosphere is to store the carbon dioxide underground. Natural reservoirs of the gas exist, suggesting that it is feasible. |
CFO
April 1, 2006
Lori Calabro |
Peabody Energy's Rick Navarre The CFO of the world's largest private-sector coal producer toils in an industry often perceived as unsafe, environmentally unfriendly, and a poor investment compared with alternative energy forms. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2007
Peter Fairley |
Syn City Could Zaozhuang's hybrid chemical and power plants help clean up China's energy sector? |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2012
Peter Fairley |
Cleaner Coal's Last Stand China's first coal-gasification power plant starts operating amid high hopes, delays, and cost overruns |
Chemistry World
April 9, 2008
Hepeng Jia |
China revives coal chemicals drive China is to focus on developing its coal chemicals sector in an effort to wean itself off imported oil, a senior government official has said. |
Geotimes
December 2006
Fred Schwab |
Why Fester? Let's Sequester! Instead of looking toward another fossil fuel-based energy choice, scientists need to examine carbon dioxide sequestering, the capture and storage technology that removes anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2008
William Sweet |
Winner: Restoring Coal's Sheen A Swedish energy company is the first to initiate and complete a project of significant scale to demonstrate carbon capture and storage with a coal plant. |
Popular Mechanics
December 8, 2009
James B. Meigs |
The Myth of Clean Coal: Analysis Although coal-fired power plants are cleaner than they used to be, they are still bad news for the environment and human health. |
Popular Mechanics
November 14, 2006
Jerry Beilinson |
Carbon Futures It's a bit ironic, but the dirtiest of alternative energy technologies could have the biggest impact. Gasification is the process of taking one fuel -- coal, often -- and turning it into a gas (syngas) that can be burned, plus a bunch of other chemicals. |
Fast Company
March 2009
Melanie Warner |
Clean Coal: It's Not a Misnomer, But is it the Answer? Advances in clean coal are promising but the industry and society shouldn't celebrate just yet. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2008
Jon Luoma |
Greenhouse Graveyard: New Progress for Big Global Warming Fix Scientists admit it will be tough to capture a key greenhouse gas and bury carbon dioxide in the ground, in rock or underwater. What's even tougher for carbon sequestration: figuring out where to store it. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2007
Carl Hoffman |
High-Tech Mining Makes Coal King of Fossil Fuels, But Is It Clean? The abundance of coal and new mining technology will make this the fuel of choice for power plants for years to come. |
National Defense
May 2009
Frodl & Manoyan |
Natural Gas: Safer Cleaner Energy That Pays For Itself Along with clean coal, natural gas is perhaps the most practical energy option for the United States to decrease its dependence on foreign oil and reduce its vulnerability to outside threats. |
The Motley Fool
April 19, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
Working the Black Seam Profitably Peabody Coal is among the world's largest coal producers. It's no surprise to see it benefiting from a tight coal market. There could be some life left in this bull cycle yet. |
Chemistry World
May 20, 2014
Rachel Purser-Lowman |
Microbes reduce coal's carbon footprint Scientists in Canada are investigating the microbial conversion of coal into methane, to find a way that coal, especially low grade unmineable coal, can be used in order to minimize its environmental impact. |
Chemistry World
April 19, 2013
James Urquhart |
Solar boost for gas power stations US researchers are developing a system that could boost the efficiency of gas-fired power plants while reducing their greenhouse emissions. |
Chemistry World
May 2, 2014
Jon Cartwright |
'Solar' jet fuel made out of thin air The dream of producing hydrocarbon fuels from carbon dioxide and sunlight is one step closer thanks to chemists in Europe who have made jet fuel from scratch in a solar reactor for the first time. |
The Motley Fool
January 24, 2005
Bill Paul |
Party On, King Coal Some coal companies look poised for sizable gains this year. Peabody Energy... Arch Coal... Consol Energy... Alliance Resource Partners... etc. |
The Motley Fool
December 27, 2007
Ron Vlieger |
Will Coal Stay Hot? Coal prices, and coal stocks, have shot up this year. Will they remain stoked in 2008, or are they about to go cold? |
The Motley Fool
January 27, 2011
Tim Hanson |
One Exciting Opportunity Eastern Star Gas is a small-cap energy firm focused on finding and producing coal seam gas in Australia. |
BusinessWeek
November 19, 2009
Adam Aston |
China's Surprising Clout in Cleantech U.S. energy players are looking to the mainland for help. |
Chemistry World
November 6, 2008
James Mitchell Crow |
Double reactor makes hydrogen and syngas Two chemical reactions key to producing future fuels can be linked together in a single membrane-based reactor to increase their efficiency, say Chinese chemists. |
Reason
June 2009
Ronald Bailey |
Energy Futures A quick guide to alternative energy sources we may see in the not-too-distant future. |
The Motley Fool
December 28, 2011
Aimee Duffy |
U.S. Natural Gas Kills Coal An abundance of natural gas changes the game for coal players. |
The Motley Fool
July 20, 2006
Anders Bylund |
Word of the Day: Sequestration GE and BP work together to stem global warming. These global giants certainly have the scale and resources to make it happen. |
Scientific American
August 2007 |
Worse Than Gasoline Liquid coal would produce roughly twice the global warming emissions of gasoline. |
The Motley Fool
June 25, 2009
Ivan Martchev |
There's No Unseating King Coal Clean coal technology could be the industry's next big win. |
The Motley Fool
January 16, 2008
Zoe Van Schyndel |
Invest in Solid Black Gold This ETF gives you exposure to coal producers around the world. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2008
Jonathan Katz |
Dow Fights Energy, Raw Materials Costs New gasification facility could reduce Dow's greenhouse emissions by 20%, and save the company money. |
IndustryWeek
August 1, 2005
Bruce Vernyi |
King Coal Makes A Comeback New technology and capacity pressures have producers and regulators considering coal as fuel. |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2008
Christopher Barker |
Peabody Energy Has Foot in China's Door Roiled markets may be ignoring the fundamentals for coal. |
BusinessWeek
September 26, 2005
Michael Arndt |
The New Clean Fuel: Coal Producer Goes Green American Electric Power, once the nemesis of environmentalists, will embrace an eco-friendly way of producing electricity from coal. |
The Motley Fool
March 16, 2010
Christopher Barker |
Time to Buy This Tasty Appalachian Combination? Does CONSOL Energy's new purchase and subsequent sell-off make it a buy? |
Chemistry World
August 10, 2010
Rebecca Trager |
Facelift for FutureGen project America's flagship clean coal project, FutureGen, will be revamped through $1 billion in economic stimulus funds pledged by the US Department of Energy on 5 August. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2006
John S. McClenahen |
Energy: Supply-Side Manufacturers Benefit An upsurge in power plant construction will benefit such firms as General Electric Co. and ABB Ltd., the North American unit of Zurich-based ABB Group., which make such gear as turbines, generators, transformers and controls. |
The Motley Fool
April 25, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
Coal Stays Green Arch Coal continues to benefit from strong demand and constrained supply in the coal market. |
The Motley Fool
January 27, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Massey Converts Coal to Income With production difficulties all around, coal's price looks secure for the time being. Still, don't let enthusiasm for the stocks lead you into paying more than your due diligence suggests you should. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2008
Daniel Tam-Claiborne |
Before 21st Century Fuels, Scientists Scouted Clean-Coal Power Economics frequently drives technological advances. |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
Peabody's Money Pit Strong demand and low inventories have kept coal prices buoyant, allowing Peabody to rake in the cash. The stock has been red-hot. |
The Motley Fool
April 18, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Peabody Still Mining Money The coal market is still roaring, and Peabody is reaping the energy. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
January 27, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
No BTU Blues With coal prices still heading higher, little relief in sight, and a lot of uncommitted production still left to be signed into contracts, the future for Peabody looks pretty appealing. Investors, take note. |
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2005
Erin Schulte |
The Other Black Gold--Coal With the U.S. thirst for electricity showing no signs of slowing, with oil prices skyrocketing and, perhaps most importantly, with a coal-friendly administration firmly entrenched, the coal industry looks like it is on an extended winning streak. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
January 31, 2008
Toby Shute |
Balk to the Future High energy costs are eating away at coal miner Peabody Energy's operating efficiency. |
