Coal Fired Power Plants Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:36:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Xcel Energy Starts Hybrid Power Plant in Colorado https://www.greenoptimistic.com/xcel-energy-hybrid-solar-coal-power-plant-colorado-20100701/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/xcel-energy-hybrid-solar-coal-power-plant-colorado-20100701/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:36:32 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=8300 Designed by Abengoa Solar, a Spanish company that has its U.S. headquarters in Lakewood, the $4.5 million plant which is slated for shutdown by the end of 2010, has been converted to test the use of parabolic-trough mirrors.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/xcel-energy-hybrid-solar-coal-power-plant-colorado-20100701/feed/ 1 8300 A Cleaner And More Efficient Way to Capture Carbon Dioxide https://www.greenoptimistic.com/a-cleaner-and-more-efficient-way-to-capture-carbon-dioxide-20090726/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/a-cleaner-and-more-efficient-way-to-capture-carbon-dioxide-20090726/#respond Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:25:04 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4130 The process of separating CO2 from its source is called capturing (CO2). The new method discovered by the scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory might replace all the existing Carbon Dioxide capturing devices and improve a lot their performance and stability.

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