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New Process Takes Energy From Coal Without Burning It
rtoz writes "Ohio State students have come up with a scaled-down version of a power plant combustion system with a unique experimental design--one that chemically converts coal to heat while capturing 99 percent of the carbon dioxide produced in the reaction. Typical coal-fired power plants burn coal to heat water to make steam, which turns the turbines that produce electricity. In chemical looping, the coal isn't burned with fire, but instead chemically combusted in a sealed chamber so that it doesn't pollute the air. This new technology, called coal-direct chemical looping, was pioneered by Liang-Shih Fan, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and director of Ohio State's Clean Coal Research Laboratory."
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What Virginia mountains? I don't know what you are talking about, I don't see any....
Maybe we should start burning C-level executives instead of coal.
Maybe it's diamonds. Boy, are those Belgian airport thieves going to be pissed.
It wouldn't work, anyways. Bullshit has a lower energy density than coal.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
It wouldn't work, anyways. Bullshit has a lower energy density than coal.
But coal is a finite resource. Washington DC alone proves there is an unlimited supply of bullshit.
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
Actually it's no longer NIMBY, it's NOPE. Not on Planet Earth.
Yeah, but it contains a lot of hot air, so you can use that to drive a turbine. Unless they sell it first.