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.
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The recent U-turn by of some of the UK's leading environmentalists - and one-time nuclear energy opponents - on the issue of nuclear energy, has caused vigourous debate in the media. Their reasoning is that we simply don't have the capacity to produce enough renewable energy to meet our needs. But as this comprehensive Ecologist report from 2007 shows the UK is really a renewable energy powerhouse.
… 2009 News Renewable Energy Energy Oil UK Coal Gas Climate Change Global Warming Carbon … Global Warming Climate Change Nuclear Oil Coal Depleted Uranium UK Environment Climate … the energy crisis. Stop using oil, gas and coal and we might just stabilise carbon …
In a week which has seen the UK Government shift the fracking argument away from price benefits (always an erroneous case) the pro fracking lobby is now scrambling around to find and play up to the public the wider economic benefits shale gas development could bring to Britain. Alex Stevenson reports....
… the way in finding new sources of energy - coal in the 18th and 19th centuries, oil in … UK gas fracking boom 'may be dirtier than coal' As well as local outrage over 'fracking' … gas footprint may be higher than that of coal. Tom Levitt reports from the centre of …
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 answer to the ongoing Brofiscin saga lies not in the South Wales Quarry but in Doncaster. Jon Hughes explains the complex legal judgement that has paralysed the Environment Agency and undermined its raison d’etre; to make the polluter pay
… had been home to a former gasworks, producing coal gas. Initially it was privately owned, …
The answer to the ongoing Brofiscin saga lies not in the South Wales Quarry but in Doncaster. Jon Hughes explains the complex legal judgement that has paralysed the Environment Agency and undermined its raison d’etre; to make the polluter pay
… had been home to a former gasworks, producing coal gas. Initially it was privately owned, …
Sir David King is credited with bringing climate change to serious political attention. But he is also a campaign of GM crops. How does that square?
… by the nanoparticles of carbon, produced by coal fires, that caused precipitation of … creates smog. So we stopped the burning of coal and, bingo, that stopped smog. So we have …
The Government sees fracking as the answer to the UK's energy problems. But as Alex Stevenson reports, support for it is weak among Lib Dem MPs, not to mention their voters. Could fracking soon be finished?
… shale has a lesser carbon output than heavy coal, it's still a very large contributor to … a more Conservative mindset from their coalition partners. Or perhaps it's down to …
Would UKIP be riding so high if voters knew of the party's links with powerful right-wing US corporate interests promoting fossil fuels, denying climate change, opposing gun control, and supporting big tobacco, teaching creationism in schools, healthcare privatisation and the lifting of nuclear power regulation? An Ecologist investigation exposes the real UKIP.
… based on "proven technologies" including coal and gas. In his speech to the party's …
With 20 months to go until the next general election, Britain's energy policy debate is already heating up, reports Alex Stevenson.....
… to try and address huge frustrations with the coalition's current approach? The answer is … unconventional gas - including fracking and coal bed methane extraction - has to offer the …
Ministers are determined to get fracking under way in the UK as fast as possible, so it's a 'fait accompli' in time for the election, writes Alex Stevenson. With a firm pro-fracking concensus in Parliament, only one thing can frustrate their plans - strong local campaigns to turn around MPs desperate for re-election in 2015. It even has a name: democracy.
… in power after 2015 might reverse the current coalition's efforts to make widespread … may surface with renewed ferocity. The coalition's junior partners are unlikely to … of fracked gas is comparable to that of coal. Add in the impact of shipping from US …
Cuts to feed-in tariffs and hostility to large-scale farms have undermined the UK's solar energy sector. But changes are under way in the heart of government. Could 2014 be the UK's 'year of the sun'?
… meanwhile the house next door is drawing down coal-fired electricity at 15p per unit. "The … better than it has done so far under the coalition government. Noble says he is …