Green Options » old king coal http://greenoptions.com/tag/old-king-coal Posts tagged 'old king coal' Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:13:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Old King Coal’s New Nursery Rhyme (cartoon) http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/09/24/old-king-coals-new-nursery-rhyme/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/09/24/old-king-coals-new-nursery-rhyme/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:13:40 +0000 Joe Mohr http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/09/24/old-king-coals-new-nursery-rhyme/ Mean Joe Green #74: Old King Coal’s New Nursery Rhyme.
Will we be able to move away from dirty fossil fuels to new clean energy sources in the near future? Not if Old King Coal has his way…

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]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/09/24/old-king-coals-new-nursery-rhyme/feed/ Old King Coal Not So Merry Any More: Biomass Conversions on the Rise http://cleantechnica.com/2009/04/05/old-king-coal-not-so-merry-any-more-biomass-conversions-on-the-rise/ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/04/05/old-king-coal-not-so-merry-any-more-biomass-conversions-on-the-rise/#comments Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:31:34 +0000 Tina Casey http://cleantechnica.com/2009/04/05/old-king-coal-not-so-merry-any-more-biomass-conversions-on-the-rise/ Coal-to-biomass conversions could help put an end to surface coal mining.From Hawaii, U.S.A. to Limpopo, South Africa and everywhere in between, the push is on to convert coal-fired power plants to burn biomass.  Just in the past few days, FirstEnergy announced plans to convert one of its coal plants into one of the largest biomass plants in the U.S.  As if this full frontal assault wasn’t enough, a major conference is set in July to explore the full potential for converting coal plants to biomass co-firing.  That could bring an eventual end to coal mining operations like the one pictured above, but the question is: where’s all that biomass going to come from?

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