Posted on October 25, 2007 by jmuckerheide
Mining Industry Converts Coal to Clean-Burning Natural Gas | Mining Exploration News
A Cambridge start-up that converts coal to clean-burning natural gas will take its cutting-edge process to the next step, building a $25 million demonstration plant near Fall River to ready their technology for full-scale commercial production.
“This is where we are going to demonstrate our [...]
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Posted on September 28, 2007 by jmuckerheide
We Need to Build 5,000 – 6,000 Nuclear Power Plants by the 2050s to Meet World Energy Needs
If we can get one-third of world energy from nuclear power sources (which is 100% of 1990 world energy use), can we get renewables and fossil fuels to DOUBLE 1990 energy use to provide two-thirds of the world’s 2050s energy [...]
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Posted on September 28, 2007 by jmuckerheide
Do arbitrary legislative and regulatory constraints in the name of the “environment” unnecessarily limit access to low-cost natural gas resources – at great cost for business and home heating bills, for fertilizers and industrial use, including hydrogen production? Is there a possibility of greatly increasing the current 2 billion cubic feet per day of gas from [...]
Filed under: Environment, Fossil Fuels, Regulation | Tagged: natural gas, resource access, shale | Leave a Comment »