Sentences with phrase «commercial scale coal»

Australia's Syngas Limited has engaged Rentech to provide Fischer - Tropsch fuels production preliminary engineering services for Syngas» proposed commercial scale coal and biomass to liquids (CBTL) fuels facility in Southern Australia, known as the Clinton Project.

Australia's Syngas Limited has engaged Rentech to provide Fischer - Tropsch fuels production preliminary engineering services for Syngas» proposed commercial scale coal and biomass to liquids (CBTL) fuels facility in Southern Australia, known as the Clinton Project.

Not exact matches

But despite some commercial demonstrations of such carbon sequestration technology, largely to help recover more oil from depleted fields, none have approached anywhere near the scale necessary to significantly impact the 9.3 billion metric tons of CO2 — and rising — emitted every year from burning coal.

«The aspirational 2015 target for an integrated commercial - scale project now proves unrealistic,» Ralph Hillman, president of the Australian Coal Association, told researchers and CCS program directors meeting in Melbourne in late November.

It's in the «best interest and prosperity of future generations» to deploy clean coal technology by 2015, she said, but she added that «early research has shown us this is not viable at this time on a commercial scale.»

The coal industry, and its backers in Congress, have said that if EPA deems CCS the best system of emissions reduction, it will force the industry to use a method that has not been proved on a commercial scale.

A coal - fired power station in Canada is launching carbon capture and storage on a commercial scale.

Indeed the South African Coal, Oil and Gas Corporation (SASOL) remains the only firm to have developed this process on a commercial scale.

We had long been working to reveal and oppose large scale industrial and commercial scale bioenergy in various forms ranging from ethanol refineries to soy and palm oil biodiesel to coal plants converting over to burn wood.

We had hoped to have a clean coal power station up and running by 2015 but the fact is that the early research has shown us that this is not viable at this time on a commercial scale.

Like the fact that mercury emissions from coal fired - power plants continues to rise and that carbon capture and storage remains an elusive pipe dream that will take another 40 years to deploy on a commercial scale.

Currently, methanol is being cleanly produced from coal on a commercial scale for around 50 cents a gallon.

While EPA did not propose that CCS represented BSER [best system of emission reduction], EPA stated in the preamble of the proposed NSPS rule that «CCS is technologically feasible for implementation at new coal - fired power plants and its core components (CO2 capture, compression, transportation and storage) have already been implemented at commercial scale.»

U.S. spending on big, near - commercial technology projects in other countries, such as full - scale clean coal plants in China, should be approached cautiously, as it is likely to raise political ire.

«If coal is to continue as a primary component of the nation's future energy supply in a carbon - constrained world, large - scale demonstrations of carbon management technologies — especially carbon capture and sequestration — are needed to prove the commercial readiness of technologies to significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions from coal - based power plants and other energy conversion processes,» says the report.

Coal with geosequestration of the CO2 produced is so prohibitively expensive that it is, so far as I know, not being done on a commercial scale anywhere in the world.

Because there is no commercial scale tidal, wave, or clean coal, Exelon's financially challenged nuclear facilities would likely earn an estimated $ 300 million per year from low carbon credits while renewables would get virtually no support.

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