NITI Ayog, Minister Goyal and Mr Subramanian have all emphasised the need to
focus on cleaner coal technologies, like high efficiency power plants.
As described in CoalSwarm's
article on clean coal, the campaign has its roots in the coal industry's efforts to market «clean coal» or «smokeless coal» prior to World War II.
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in China last week reiterated Australia's support for joint research projects
on clean coal with China.
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front on clean coal!?»
Southern signed a memorandum of understanding with state - owned Chinese company Shenhua Group earlier this year to
collaborate on clean coal technologies, but the one licensing of TRIG on a Chinese facility so far is for the gasification technology only, minus the capture component, according to Southern officials.
(This week's deal between GE and
Shenhua on clean coal suggests that there's plenty of corporate interest in such collaborations.)
In one of the memoranda of understanding (MOUs), China's Huaneng Clean Energy Research Institute, a subsidiary of state - owned power company China Huaneng and Washington - based Summit Power Group agreed to share
information on clean coal power generation technology.
The answer, he says, is for government to invest more
money on clean coal technology «as a matter of urgency».
I'm also disappointed that McCain favors spending $ 30 billion
on clean coal despite the fact that this approach doesn't seem to be practical.
I am also committed to investing two billion dollars every year for the next 15
years on clean coal technologies, to unlock the potential of America's oldest and most abundant resource.
For instance, Ned Leonard, a longtime Western Fuels operative, became a vice president at CEED and is now the go - to
guy on clean coal technology at ACCCE.
TH: You spoke a second ago about the coal industry and the efforts that they're making to sell
people on the clean coal thing.
Ian Dunlop, who used to chair the Australian Coal Association but now campaigns to leave coal in the ground, says this will force the industry to
focus on cleaner coal.