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Pumpe It Up Germany opens world's first carbon-capturing 'clean coal' demo plant		05 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 11:22 AM on 05 Sep 2008 Germany will next week open the world's first "clean coal" plant actually ready to capture and store its carbon-dioxide emissions. The 30-megawatt, $100 million Schwarze Pumpe demonstration plant will burn coal in an atmosphere of oxygen instead of regular air, producing some 10 tons per hour of compressed CO2 that can be captured and buried under a depleted gas field. (Su ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, energy, Germany, news (all these topics)

Coal in Europe The enemy of the human race is set to wipe out Europe's meager emissions gains	David Roberts	28 May 2008	Gristmill
They're building a huge new coal-fired power plant in Holz, Germany, where there are already three. To fuel it, an open-pit mine that has scarred the fields outside town with a 31-square-mile hole will be moved west, swallowing up this village and nearby Pesch. Already, their neat cottages sit empty and boarded. That's just one of many planned for Europe: Plans are on the books to build 40 major coal-fired power stations across Europe in the next five years. G ...
Topics: coal, dumbassery, energy, European Union, Germany (all these topics)

Deutsche steinkohle ist kaputt Except that we still have to wait another 10 years	Ron Steenblik	10 Aug 2007	Gristmill
The German government on Wednesday cleared the way -- finally -- to phase out the mining of hard coal in Germany. As explained by this Associated Press article in the International Herald Tribune, the heavily subsidized German hard coal industry still employs about 33,000 people in eight underground mines. The plan is to phase out hard-coal mining starting in 2009, and for miners to receive compensation if they are laid off prematurely. Hard-coal mining 'has n ...
Topics: coal, energy, Germany (all these topics)

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