Apparently there has been an idea around for a while to use coal in diesel engines. The idea is to pulverise coal into fine particles and mix it with water to form a slurry and inject this into the compression chamber of a diesel engine where it would explode with the compressed air just like [...]
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Posted 02 October 2008
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Here is a great story from the Guardian about the worlds largest wind farm. Its so non stereotypical of who does what, how and why in sustainable energy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/14/windpower.energy
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Posted 14 April 2008
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Ministers ordered to assess climat cost of all decisions
Government says new ‘carbon price’ will favour eco-friendly policy choices” goes the title of a front page article in todays Guardian, (Sat, 22/12/07).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/dec/22/climatechange.carbonemissions
The second sentence of the article, by Patrick Wintour the Guardian’s political editor, goes onto say, “Ministers have been instructed to factor into their [...]
Has anyone any further information on this solar farm ……
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/16/2093119.htm
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Posted 18 November 2007
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Below is a link to Thursday’s Guardian of an article warning that Indonesia’s rush to cultivate palm oil as a fuel substitute could release billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere in one go. This is because deep peat bogs that contain massive amounts of carbon would need to be cleared to make way [...]
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Posted 09 November 2007
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