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Coal Fired Power Plants Must Remove Mercury From Exhaust Gasses
- - - 8 Feb., 2008

Friday, 8 Feb., 2008 is the date a Federal Appeals Court ruled that a rule of the EPA that permitted trading mercury pollution credits violated the Clean Air Act, and that meant coal fired power plants must remove the mercury from the air, using the "best technology available". Read about this and possible solutions Court mandates removing mercury from coal in power plants. How it can be economically accomplished

Anglo American and Shell Form Clean Coal Energy Alliance
(29 May 2006

Anglo American and Shell have announced the formation of an Alliance in the field of coal conversion to clean energy. The two companies aim to maximize the benefits from the emerging field of clean coal energy by funding coal conversion projects. These projects will utilize the coal reserves of Anglo American and combine its mining capabilities with Shell's technologies. The objective is to extract, gasify and then convert coal into chemicals, hydrogen, power, liquid hydrocarbons and other uses.

They plan to incorporate Anglo American's Monash Energy Project, based in Australia, into the Alliance. This project is exploring technologies that produce liquid fuels from non-conventional sources, such as coal. The project initially envisages a coalmine, drying and gasification plant, carbon dioxide capture and storage and a gas-to- liquids (GTL) plant with associated power generation.

Coal Production Estimates, 2007 - - - 19 April, 2007

In the US, coal production for 2007 is expected to exceed 1,170,000,000 tons, meaning a third record production year in a row. The majority of coal is used to produce electricity, producing over 50% of all electricity consumed in the United States. Experts estimate that the electrical demand for coal will increase 1.5% in 2007. However, beware, the tree huggers are coming. They want to stop the use of all fuels, especially coal. Will America be in the dark? Will electricity cost $2.00 per KWH, with their ridicilous and ineffective regulations enacted by the most liberal, irresponsible congress in history come to pass? Stay tuned. I did not vote for any of these idiots in power, how about you?

Charles Kubach
Mine-Engineer.Com