Articles containing the tag ‘CHP’

Carbon capture and storage

Posted in Technology on 06/23/2009 08:26 am by Stephen Tindale

Coal has a very high carbon content, so is a major source of greenhouse gasses and the economic costs of polluting the atmosphere are not borne by the polluter, In economic jargon, ‘the externalities are not internalised’.

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Editorial 23 June 2009: Can coal ever be clean?

Posted in Editorials on 06/23/2009 08:46 am by Stephen Tindale

Burning coal is an extremely damaging way to generate electricity. Coal has a very high carbon content, so is a major source of greenhouse gasses. Burning it also results in pollutants that are directly damaging to human health, such as sulphur dioxide.

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