After years of protest, plans by the Anadolu Group to build a coal power plant in the seaside town of Gerze are awaiting the go-ahead from the Turkish government. But protest group YEGEP are not giving up without a fight
… Coal and Corruption: The Battle for Gerze … Walker Morgan Hartley | 17th August 2012 News Coal Power Plant Anadolu YEGEP Turkey Gerze … plans by the Anadolu Group to build a coal power plant in the seaside town of Gerze …
Britain lingers near to the bottom of the European league table for renewable energy, so why does it seem that the government are willing to add more coal nails to the coffin?
… Coal is over Joss Garman | 22nd June 2008 Comment Coal Renewable Energy Kingsnorth CCS Coal Global Warming Carbon Off-Setting Nuclear …
Clean Coal Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is the technology of stripping carbon dioxide from the exhaust gases of fossil fuels and then burying it as a liquid underground.
… Power On - Clean Coal Jon Hughes Mark Anslow | 1st November 2007 News Clean Coal Carbon Dioxide Carbon Capture Coal Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Climate …
Don't believe the carbon capture hype, say MPs and NGOs
… Clean coal myth at E-On's Kingsnorth 1st July 2008 … Kingsnorth Carbon Dioxide Carbon Off-Setting Coal Technology Climate Change Energy … hype, say MPs and NGOs E.ON’s controversial coal-fired power station to be built at …
Instead of spikes in demand and coal-fired solutions, fridges and washing machines may soon be available that can regulate their own energy usage.
… Instead of spikes in demand and coal-fired solutions, fridges and washing … gas plants, it tends to be the workhorse coal power stations that fulfil this … problematic. The current reliance on coal power plants to balance out demand will …
Relying on unproven technologies such as Carbon Capture and Storage is a dangerous distraction from the more systematic changes required to tackle climate change.
… station in Yorkshire, which currently burns coal and biomass (in the form of wood pellets), and is planning to replace coal with gas. The previous CCS competition … North Yorkshire, which planned to build a new coal plant with the technology (see our …
In a surprise move, the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has appointed Cambridge Professor David Mackay as its Chief Scientific Adviser
… heralds a new phase of thinking at DECC on coal power, particularly because Mackay is … change will require the end of unabated coal burning: 'Solving climate change is a … dioxide must be such that people stop burning coal without capture.' Track record Mackay was …
Well, now we have it; nuclear power is once again going to save the day. In the past it helped save us from coal, now it is going to save us, if the rest of the world follows our example, from global warming.
… the day. In the past it helped save us from coal, now it is going to save us, if the rest … the energy extracted is no better than mining coal, assuming that the uranium is used in a … the total release of greenhouse gases. Both coal and fuel oil used in a co-generation …
Biochar - the charcoaled remains of agricultural waste - is being hailed as a huge opportunity to reduce the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But is the science sound, and do we have enough waste to go around?
… Biochar: can charcoal really stop global warming? Almuth … And Technology Carbon Carbondioxide charcoal.jpg Biochar - the charcoaled remains of agricultural waste - is …
In a hard-hitting new investigation, Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway report on the scientists prepared to distort the truth on the key issues of our time - from tobacco to climate change to coal fired power stations
… our time - from tobacco to climate change to coal fired power stations In 2006 the tobacco … on the links between sulphur emissions from coal-fired power stations and acid rain, and …
A new report has revealed that a change in the way we manage agricultural land could help sequester a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide emissions every year
… capture and storage (CCS) technologies for coal-fired power plants, a more effective … CCS – capturing carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants at source and pumping …
Carbon Coach Dave Hampton completely ignores Matilda Lee’s thermostat and heads stright for her lightbulbs.
… expensive sources of energy – gas (40%), coal (30%), nuclear (20%), oil (5%) – to … to invest in non-renewable energy sources, eg coal, gas or nuclear WHY SWITCH NOW? This year … we can fill the gap threatened by nuclear and coal decommissioning while the grey suits in …
With fuel bills rising and back in the news, bizarrely it’s green energy in the firing line.
… to redefine nuclear and ‘carbon-capture’ coal as ‘renewable’. Knowing neither can be … John Hutton’s energy vision: a half-built CCS coal plant in China contributing towards UK …
The new suite of measures proposed by the Government for reducing greenhouse gas emissions is an impressive list... but as the information sinks in green groups have begun to find some holes
… change targets'. A continued committment to coal-fired power stations was also singled out … had 'ducked the issue', and that replacing coal-fired power stations would lock Britain …
Somebody somewhere has to have a cunning plan to fix our environmental problems and save the world – right? Jim Thomas sorts through the big tech ideas you’ll be reading about this year
… of biofuels, protests against ‘clean coal technology and GM crops staging a … escaping. Biochar Take wood, turn it into charcoal and then bury it in the soil – that’s the … such as Greenpeace and Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition have had major successes forcing …
The Centre for Alternative Technology's Emergence Summit must develop positive versions of the future, as if we can't imagine it - there won't be one, says Paul Allen
… And Technology Energy Cat Paul Allen Oil Gas Coal Paul Allen cat image (2).jpg The Centre …
Ever wondered where computers go when they die? Or what the endless expanse of a Chinese factory floor actually looks like? This film is a meditation on the consumer world
… to make way for the Three Gorges Dam, vast coal mines and other ‘manufactured …
As US climatologists and scientists are urging the world that greenhouse gas emissions be curbed rapidly to prevent runaway global warming, the UK Met Office appears to be back pedalling on human induced climate change. Peter Bunyard reports on some mixed messages
… for the government in its plans to allow new coal-fired plant to be built and, not least, …
Growing crops to solve the planet’s energy needs doesn’t work. Recycling the energy in our waste just might have a significant part to play. By Jeremy Smith & Jon Hughes
… borough council is replacing its old coal-burning power stations and finding a use … to put up with the pollution that came with coal – they also have lower fuel bills. Whilst coal costs 1.8 pence per kW hour, biomass in …
The UK has been described as the ‘Saudi Arabia’ of wind, with some 50 TWh of onshore and at least 450 TWh of offshore power available every year, well in excess of our current electricity demand.
… per cent, for gas power plants 60 per cent, coal plants 62 per cent and the historical …
The question arises soon after readers or lecture audiences first become acquainted with global oil depletion and climate change. I must be asked it at least once a week.
… threat has been a rush toward biofuels and coal-to-liquid technologies. Yet if either of …
As negotiators haggle in Copenhagen over the levels of financial assistance to be provided to less-industrialised nations, Anna Da Costa highlights the difference this money could make
… 'conventional' grid power by 2022 and with coal-based thermal power, currently the …