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July 02, 2009
Rep. Ross Sees Clean Coal As Better Option Than Wind Energy For ArkansasThe Arkansas Times reports Rep. Mike Ross (D-AR) says Arkansas "can't count on wind for large-scale energy production. Arkansas will get Clean Coal before it gets Big Wind, Ross believes." However, environmentalists say the state's "wind potential has not been reliably measured, that it could be considerably greater than the standard studies show, and that in any case, the state must make the most of energy sources such as wind and solar because the burning of more coal would be intolerable." The Times highlights a local church's wind project, where wind provides about ten percent of the church's power needs. Yet Ross says "instead of saying 'no coal,' we should embrace new technologies and find ways to clean coal up."
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July 02, 2009
Progress Energy Coal Plant Said To Be Among Nation's CleanestThe Register & Bee reported, "Deep into the beauty of rural North Carolina and close to where boaters and swimmers are enjoying Hyco Lake, the future of clean coal energy can be seen at Progress Energy's Roxboro plant." Over seven years, workers have been installing "four new 'scrubbers' to reduce the nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide levels emitted by the plant." The project "cost $800 million and has made the 10th largest coal-fired power plant in the nation also one of the cleanest."
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June 28, 2009
Algae Farm Aims to Turn Carbon Dioxide Into FuelDow Chemical and Algenol Biofuels, a start-up company, are set to announce Monday that they will build a demonstration plant that, if successful, would use algae to turn carbon dioxide into ethanol as a vehicle fuel or an ingredient in plastics. The process also produces oxygen, which could be used to burn coal in a power plant cleanly, said Paul Woods, chief executive of Algenol, which is based in Bonita Springs, Fla. The exhaust from such a plant would be mostly carbon dioxide, which could be reused to make more algae.
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June 28, 2009
Texas firm harnesses carbon dioxide to extract oil from abandoned fieldsDenbury's pipeline is central to GNO Inc.'s vision of an energy future for Louisiana built on carbon capture and enhanced oil recovery. Denbury now mines carbon dioxide from the Jackson Dome, a reservoir deposited by an ancient volcano thousands of feet underground. Denbury bought the dome in 1999 from Shell Oil, which had hoped to find natural gas inside, and the company uses the carbon dioxide to bubble oil from fields that others have abandoned. Denbury already has a pipeline that transports carbon dioxide from Jackson, Miss., to Donaldsonville. This year, it started expanding the pipeline across Louisiana, the nation's second-largest industrial producer of carbon dioxide. The company plans to buy man-made carbon dioxide and inject it into oil fields it owns in Texas.
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June 24, 2009
$100M Wyo. research plant to break ground in 2010State officials yesterday said construction of a $100 million research plant to look for low-emission ways to turn Wyoming coal into natural gas and other products will begin next year, with the goal of having the plant up and running by late 2012. Finding ways to burn coal cleaner is paramount for Wyoming, the nation's biggest coal producer. The state has invested $50 million into the research facility.
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June 08, 2009
US DOE offers $1.4-bil for carbon capture and storage projectsThe US Department of Energy on Monday said it will make available more than $1.4-billion for projects that would advance technologies for capturing and storing carbon from a range of industrial facilities, including oil refineries, steel plants and power plants. To be eligible for funding, a project must show it can capture 75% of the CO2 from the smokestack and proposals must include an assessment of local geology that shows it is suitable for permanent carbon storage. Roughly 10 to 12 grants would be distributed under the program with DOE paying for between one half and 80% of the project, the agency said.
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June 01, 2009
Scientists testing Wyo.'s sagebrush as a CO2 removerFederal scientists are studying the potential ecological effects of sequestering carbon dioxide in Wyoming's sagebrush. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management and Department of Agriculture -- along with the University of Wyoming -- are studying whether the ingestion of CO2 by sagebrush improves soil quality.
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May 26, 2009
Chrysler submits $448 million electric car planChrysler and its "partners," plus the Department of Energy, would pay $224 million each should the proposals be approved and would include an investment of up to $83 million to build a new technology and manufacturing center in Michigan to help develop and assemble these vehicles. That complex should be functional by 2010 and produce more than 20,000 vehicles a year, Chrysler said. The plan would also include $365 million for a national demonstration fleet of more than 365 test vehicles for select customers and partners. "This plan will accelerate our efforts to develop and manufacture electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, which will reduce the amount of time it will take to get these vehicles on the road."
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May 22, 2009
US DOE to issue three CCS requests for proposals by end of MayThe US Department of Energy said Thursday it plans to speed up ways to capture carbon emissions from coal plants, sequester it, and even reuse it on a commercial scale by using $3.4 billion from its $40 billion in stimulus funding. In three Notices of Intent issued Thursday, DOE said it planned to issue three funding opportunities later in May -- one for its Clean Coal Power Initiative, another for carbon dioxide storage technologies, and another for sequestration technology training.
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May 21, 2009
Ala. utility plans large-scale storage experimentAlabama Power, a subsidiary of Southern Co., is planning to make its Mobile-area coal plant the nation's first large-scale attempt to capture carbon emissions and store them underground. Beginning in 2011, 150,000 tons of carbon dioxide will be injected 9,000 feet underground each year.
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