Environmental Sciences Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 04:03:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 China’s Plans to Build Environmentally-Damaging Coal-Powered Natural Gas Plants https://www.greenoptimistic.com/chine-coal-powered-natural-gas-plants-20130925/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/chine-coal-powered-natural-gas-plants-20130925/#comments Thu, 26 Sep 2013 04:02:33 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=41899 China is currently in the process of planning synthetic natural gas plants, which are powered by coal. Though this could be good for China’s energy security, the results could be environmentally devastating. A new study by Researchers from Duke University have determined this process would produce seven times the greenhouse gas emissions, consume 100 times […]

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