Green Options » power production http://greenoptions.com/tag/power-production Posts tagged 'power production' Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:13:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Germany Opens Clean Coal Demonstration Plant http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/09/09/germany-opens-clean-coal-demonstration-plant/ http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/09/09/germany-opens-clean-coal-demonstration-plant/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:13:20 +0000 Amiel Blajchman http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/09/09/germany-opens-clean-coal-demonstration-plant/ Vattenfall DrawingGermany’s Secretary of the Chancellery, Thomas de Maizière, and Prime Minister of Brandenburg, Matthias Platzeck, together with Swedish Minister for Higher Education and Research Lars Leijonborg opened on Tuesday the world’s first “clean coal” plant, one that is ready to capture and store its carbon dioxide emissions. The 30-megawatt, $100 million Schwarze Pumpe pilot plant will burn washed lignite coal in an atmosphere of oxygen instead of regular air, producing some 10 tons per hour of compressed CO2. This compressed CO2 will then be captured and buried under a depleted gas field.

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