Predicting U.S. Coal Plant Retirements
The question concerning coal plant retirements forced by looming regulatory rules, low gas prices, and moribund load growth has changed from “Why?” to “How many plants?” Many highly detailed analyses and reports have been written on the subject… Read More
Clean Coal: How to Make Rock into Biofuel
Despite a Senate battle leaving out important funding for liquid coal research in the new energy bill, gasification remains an important engineering process to our green future. Raw coal is dirty: It’s a sulfur-filled, mercury laden, sooty, black… Read More
Southern Illinois coal-gasification plant will bring hundreds of jobs
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has signed legislation that will help launch a state-of-the-art coal gasification facility in Southern Illinois that will bring hundreds of jobs to the region. Officials with Chicago-based Power Holdings, LLC say the project will… Read More
Why Clean Coal Is Years Away
Coal is here to stay, but efforts to cut emissions are ambitious, expensive, and have largely stumbled. America runs on coal. It’s cheap, plentiful (at least for another 100 years or so), and comfortingly domestic. Two hundred years… Read More
New coal gasification plant planned in Morristown
Construction is expected to start soon in Morristown on a new coal gasification plant. Developers hope the facility will be operational late next year. Freedom Energy Diesel’s $405 million plant in the East Tennessee Progress Center near Interstate… Read More