Cleaner Coal Plant Developed

27 December 2002 - 5:00am

A new turbine makes coal as clean a natural gas.

A hybrid turbine that generates electricity from coal mine waste could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, perhaps one day making coal nearly as clean a fossil fuel as natural gas, according to Australian scientists...the technology could help close the greenhouse gas emission gap between coal and natural gas.

Source: Wired, December 25, 2002
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