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Carbon trading controversy in CanberraThe UK group, which operates a coal-fired power station in Australia, is reviewing its legal options and has warned of the possible collapse of the electricity market along the country's urban east coast in the event it and others left. In this article: Carbon, Canberra, International Power, Australia, U.S., Hong Kong, Coal, Climate change, and Liberal Party |
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The Kentucky Kernel | November 05, 2009
Kentucky's Great Divide: UK hosts four experts to debate social, economic impacts of coal
Kentucky's Great Divide: UK hosts four experts to debate social, economic impacts of coal You are here: Home / News / Campus News / Kentucky's Great Divide: UK hosts four experts to debate social, economic impacts of coal Kentucky's Great...
In this article: Kentucky, UK, Tax, Carbon, Carbon dioxide, and Climate change
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Telegraph.co.uk - Earth | 6 days ago
Households will pay extra for green electricity
...will pay extra for green electricity Households will pay extra on their fuel bills to pay for a new generation of "clean" coal power stations under plans to make Britain's electricity green. The Energy Bill will introduce a �9.5...
In this article: Carbon dioxide and Britain
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UK receives money for coal research
UK receives money for coal research Posted by News Staff on November 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment Congress is giving a financial boost to research applying coal as a transportation fuel. On Oct. 28, U.S. Reps. Geoff Davis and Hal Rogers...
In this article: Appropriation, Geoff Davis, Kentucky, Carbon, Hal Rogers, Aviation fuel, Fiscal year, and Fossil fuel
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BBC News | 5 days ago
Carbon capture site gets EU cash
...would be stored under the North Sea The European Union is to give its stamp of approval to plans for Britain's first coal-fired power station equipped with carbon capture (CCS) technology. The plant in Hatfield, near Doncaster, will...
In this article: Carbon, European Union, Climate change, North Sea, and Department of Energy
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The Press and Journal | 6 days ago
Scotland ahead in power struggle
...favourite to win clean-coal race and give country carbon-capture advantage Scotland looks likely to win the battle for Britain's first clean-coal power station. UK Government sources signalled yesterday that Longannet in Fife was the...
In this article: Carbon, Scotland, North Sea, Sequestration, Scottish Power, Jim Murphy, and Eon
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Times Online | November 15, 2009
Britain cuts down forests to keep 'green' power stations burning
...current power-generating capacity. At least four more 300-megawatt plants are planned, including three in Yorkshire that have been proposed by Drax, operator of Britain's largest coal-fired power station. Another company, MGT, plans to build...
In this article: Britain, Recession, Waste, Port Talbot, Carbon, Carbon dioxide, MGT, and Unesco
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[POLL] Renaming tradition: Coal makes its way into name of possible new lodge
...dangers of certain coal mining practices! ** If UK puts 'coal' in the dorm's name, it sends a powerful message that says "UK accepts and supports coal culture and its negative impact on the state. " Is that the message we want out there?
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Guardian | November 15, 2009
The two faces of China's giant coal industry
...of more efficient "supercritical" plants. Although China is notoriously building one a new coal-fired plant each week, most of them are more efficient than similar facilities in the UK. They are also better equipped to remove sulphur...
In this article: China, Carbon, Shenhua, Carbon dioxide, Inner Mongolia, and Climate change
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Kentucky.com | 4 days ago
Coal gives big money to candidates
...of the total. Recent controversies, including naming the UK athletic dorm "Wildcat Coal Lodge," have raised questions about the influence Alliance and other coal companies exert over public policy in Kentucky. Craft said he gets no...
In this article: University of Kentucky, UK, and Kentucky
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Coal is a readily combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure. It is composed primarily of carbon along with variable quantities of other elements, chiefly sulfur, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen.
Coal was formed from plant remains that were protected by water and mud against oxidization and biodegradation, thus trapping atmospheric carbon in the ground. Over time, the chemical and physical properties of the remains were changed by geological action to create a solid material.
Coal, a fossil fuel, is the largest source of energy for the generation of electricity worldwide, as well as one of the largest worldwide source of carbon dioxide emissions. Gross carbon dioxide emissions from coal usage are slightly more than those from petroleum and about double the amount from natural gas. Coal is extracted from the ground by mining, either underground or in open pits.
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