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A Black Day
With oil prices rising, Asia turns to coal |
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04 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 11:44 AM on 04 Jan 2008 You may have heard that oil prices are flirting with $100 a barrel; what's an oil-dependent, energy-hungry globe to do? In Asia, home to a third of the world's proven coal reserves, the answer seems obvious. Across the continent, billions of dollars are being poured into R&D of coal-to-liquid fuel and coal-bed methane extraction. Some tout the new technologies as clean 'n' green -- but coal by any other ... |
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| Topics: Asia, coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, energy, news (all these topics) |
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