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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Another great example from our government of what we shouldn’t be doing if we actually want to reduce emissions. The basic idea is to convert our fossil fuel reserves of coal and gas into transport fuels like petroleum. Robin Batterham hinted that this was inevitable if oil prices stay high for sustained periods.
‘Coal to gas’ [...]
The 7.30 report describes efforts by the Chinese government to clean up its energy sector.
China beefs up clean energy drive – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
I’ve just started reading the federal government’s report on geosequestration: Between a rock and a hard place. The first thing that surprised me is the dissent section which basically provides a platform for a number of the panel members to attack the hypothesis of anthropogenic global warming. While they firmly state that global warming isn’t [...]
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Posted 14 September 2007
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This was the theme of Robin Batterhams lecture last night but can anyone specifically remember the 3 things we were meant to take away from it?
If I took it all in correctly I think that the first was that Climate Change is occurring but unable to be pinned on human activities, the second was that [...]
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Posted 13 September 2007
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