All Posts Tagged With: "clean coal technology"

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Wyoming Wind and Coal Need Natural Gas Bridge

“One of the biggest hedges against the boom-and-bust cycles is adding value to our products,” Mark Northam, director of the University of Wyoming’s School of Energy Resources, said at the same legislative committee meeting in June. Northam said coal-gasification is “a technology whose time has come, and it’s good for the state.”

11Jul2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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DOE to Fund CO2 Storage Projects

The DOE is putting $21.3 million over three years into the initiatives in the hope of developing the technology and infrastructure for large-scale CO2 storage in different geological formations across the US. Here is a summary of each project.

13Aug2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Development of Clean Coal Technologies Goal of UW’s
Call for Proposals

The 2010 Wyoming Clean Coal Technologies was created by the Wyoming State Legislature to stimulate research and development in the area of low-emissions coal technology. Commercially successful deployment is the ultimate goal of this program.

6Aug2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wyoming’s Crash Program to
Develop ‘Green’ Coal

Freudenthal took the issue one step further: Were there any circumstances under which California regulators and utilities would consider power produced by Wyoming coal to be “green” enough to sell for premium prices?

18Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Cleaner Coal Research on Tap for Cheyenne

The cooperative project between the University and GE Energy will be located in the Cheyenne Business Parkway on the eastern side of the city off of Interstate 80. When in operation, the facility will research technologies that turn coal into natural gas to produce electricity with limited greenhouse gas emissions.

10May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Carbon Storage Bills Advance Quickly
in Statehouse

The bills build on and clarify existing carbon storage laws, and are part of Wyoming’s response to the demand for “clean” energy from large energy consuming states such as California and Arizona.

18Jan2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Will 2008 be the Last Record-Breaking
Year for Coal?

The U.S. Department of Energy reported a 3.1 percent increase in total coal production in Wyoming last year. The state has set a record in production once again, but coal producers might have to tame their appetite for record productions as they face the dictates of a recession, analysts say.

12Jan2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Special Report: Inside the $100-million
GE-Wyoming Coal Project

How much the state will gain from the exclusive arrangement with GE is not clear yet, but if the project develops a more efficient and economical process for gasification of Powder River Basin coal, it could be a significant boost for Wyoming’s considerable coal interests.

20Nov2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Why Not Geothermal Energy as Base Load Power?

The Earth Policy Institute thinks geothermal energy can become an economic substitute to provide base load energy. They say the “heat energy in the uppermost six miles of the planet’s crust is 50.000 times greater than the energy content of all oil and natural gas resources.”

17Nov2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Coal in the Crosshairs

Coal is the spouse you can’t live with and you can’t live without. While there is no denying it is a significant contributor to greenhouse gases, the plentiful natural resource generates more than half our nation’s electricity, and electrical demand is growing twice as fast as capacity.

11Nov2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued