Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The Indian Power Ministry has warned of a massive 50 million tonne coal shortage in the next two-three years that could trigger a major crisis in the crucial infrastructure sector.
Climate change will impact every one of us. For this reason, governments all over the world are making moves to mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions. Geosequestration is the new kid on the block in energy technology research. It has become very popular politically, so much so that Australia’s Howard Government, following the lead of the US, is investing heavily in it. But at what cost?
The competition between energy and environmental needs in Niger has taken centre stage of late, with authorities seeking to promote the use of coal in a bid to halt deforestation in the North African country.
It’s black, dirty and desperately unfashionable, but without it the UK may be heading for winter blackouts. Could coal really be the future of British energy?
Japan’s Electric Power Development Co. aims to soon commercialize a new electric power generation system that combines fuel cells and coal-fired thermal power, President Yoshihiko Nakagaki said Thursday.
In a distressed region of Pennsylvania, Reliant Energy is turning to poisonous piles leftover from decades of mining and using it to power a new plant
Competing companies are raiding each other for experienced help, renting ad space, billboards, even banner-towing planes at beach resorts with generous offers of pay and benefits in what is turning out to be one very hot sector of the job market.
Australia and Mexico will forge an energy co-operation agreement in November, the energy minister of Australia, which wants to sell more coal and gas to the Latin American country, said yesterday.
Sydney-based Energy Economics is forecasting sharp increases in the prices of thermal coal used for electricity generation and metallurgical coal when annual price negotiations are concluded for the new Japanese fiscal year.
The retired Professor of Physics from the University of Colorado in Boulder examines the arithmetic of steady growth, continued over modest periods of time, in a finite environment. These concepts are applied to populations and to fossil fuels such as petroleum and coal.
Coal, traditionally a bright spot in the utility industry, is starting to leave a smudge on electricity bills.
The Government is considering lifting constraints on harmful emissions from coal-fired power plants in order to ensure energy supplies in a crisis.
