From Bloomberg: Eleven Madison Park, a top Manhattan restaurant, is going meatless. The Epicurious cooking site stopped posting new beef recipes. The Culinary Institute of America is promoting “plant-forward” menus. Dozens of colleges, including Harvard and Stanford, are shifting toward …
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U.S. Department of Energy Announces Up to $14M for Advanced Coal Processing Technologies
The DoE will provide companies funding for R&D aimed at products such as building materials that are based on coal, in an effort to boost demand and keep the industry from disappearing. Obviously, as long as the coal isn’t combusted, …
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As If There Weren’t Enough To Dislike About Coal
According to the American Energy Society (an organization that covers energy issues quite objectively), more land must now be mined to produce the same amount of coal. They write:
Coal Now Cheaper Than Ever
According to the American Energy Society, “Much like production of oil, gas and all renewables, new innovations have improved coal mining productivity in the US by 26% in the last five years, reaching 6.8 tons per miner hour in 2017, up from 5.4 tons …
Oil, Coal, and Electric Transportation
A reader points out: To replace coal we do not have to also displace oil. It is a common misunderstanding to equate oil companies with our general energy needs. 70% of refined oil products are used in transportation. 20% for …
Coal Water Slurry Fuel
A reader asked my opinion of Coal Water Slurry Fuel (CWSF) as an alternative to conventional coal power generation and the greatly reduced or limited emissions. I responded that I actually don’t know much about it. From a quick read …
The Migration Away From Fossil Fuels
Here’s an article from some contributors to GreenTechMedia that argues for a “new” way to look at energy. The authors write, for example: “Much of that “plentiful” natural gas is being extracted from deep underground pockets through hydraulic “fracking,” a …
The Coal Industry’s New-Found Aggression
The tobacco industry sells the only legal product that, when used as directed, causes death — and for that, they have rightfully earned the highest level of our contempt. I suppose one could argue that agribusiness, Monsanto in particular, has …
Coal-Fired Power Plants – Some Good News
The Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation’s largest public utility, is shuttering eight coal-fired boilers at plants in Alabama and Kentucky, and more reductions could be in store over the next few years. At issue, apparently, is the high cost of …
What Actually Happens As We Move Away From Coal as an Energy Source?
Everyone on Earth who knows anything about our environment challenges would like to see the elimination of coal-fired power plants at the maximum feasible rate. Yet few (myself included) have a rock-solid understanding of the implications of moving off coal. …
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