coal power plant Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 26 Mar 2015 03:09:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Beijing Coal Power’s Last Breath will be in 2016 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/coal-power-China-Beijing/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/coal-power-China-Beijing/#respond Thu, 26 Mar 2015 03:08:56 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=53911 We’ve been covering Beijing’s growing air pollution problem for some time now, as the city fights to decide between coal power and its growing energy needs. The problem with coal power is that it is easy, practically just laying there, ready to burn. It also happens to be one of the dirtiest fossil fuel sources […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/coal-power-China-Beijing/feed/ 0 53911 And the Three Biggest Carbon Dioxide Footprints Are Made By… https://www.greenoptimistic.com/three-biggest-carbon-dioxide-footprints-made-20140304/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/three-biggest-carbon-dioxide-footprints-made-20140304/#respond Tue, 04 Mar 2014 13:58:30 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=46288 Taking a look at the Nation’s biggest emitters of carbon dioxide, we can see that we have a long way to go sweeping up our footprints. According to the most recent data, it should really come as no surprise that the two most-populous States generate the most carbon dioxide, but the third might come as […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/three-biggest-carbon-dioxide-footprints-made-20140304/feed/ 0 46288 On-Plant Carbon Capture Much More Efficient Than Air Scrubbing, Study Says https://www.greenoptimistic.com/carbon-capture-plant-efficiency-study-20111213/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/carbon-capture-plant-efficiency-study-20111213/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:32:29 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=21486 To get rid of carbon dioxide from our atmosphere, one sure way to go would be capturing the gas directly from the air. However, this is more of a challenge than would be capturing the carbon at the source of its emission, the power plant furnaces, say Stanford and MIT researchers. A similar study has […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/carbon-capture-plant-efficiency-study-20111213/feed/ 3 21486 Germany Phases Out 8 Nuclear Plants Only to Rely On… Guess What! https://www.greenoptimistic.com/germany-nuclear-plants-coal-renewables-20111109/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/germany-nuclear-plants-coal-renewables-20111109/#respond Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:09:56 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=21108 You knew Germany is set to shut all of its 18 nuclear power plants by 2022, didn’t you? I also knew that, but as Angela Merkel’s government ordered shutting eight of them this year, it now plans for a long and heavy winter, where the renewable energy resources Germany has are not enough to sustain […]

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