Australia has a fairly heavy reliance on coal power for our electricity supply, despite having plenty of open space and lots of sunshine. Which makes the announcement from Queensland coal power station CS Energy that they’ll be installing 44 megawatts worth of solar energy a promising step forward for the Australian energy industry. More »
What better way to celebrate this sacred American holiday than by watching the an old coal plant get the shit blown out of it? This complex helped create the nuclear bomb that levelled Nagasaki. Now, it’s debris. Karma? More »
newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://www.youtube.com/v/GUrtVTsy2PQ&hl=en&fs=1&hd=1","customParams":[] ,"width":500,"height":332.5,"ratio":0.615,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"youtube","wrap":true,"agegate":false} ); The most elusive of all santas, the Desaturated Santa, has finally been captured on video! The holiday season’s greatest walking illusion has been confirmed! She may seem jolly, but she only gives out coal. [Lifehacker - Thanks Netscott] More »
The edgy ecophiles at Greenpeace have placed Facebook in their crosshairs, bashing Mark Zuckerberg over what they allege is a reliance on coal to fuel his (substantial) data centres. A new video slams Zuck and asks for a renewable alternative. More »
Most tech-savvy Australians are pretty upset about the government’s proposal of mandatory internet filtering. But some anti-censorship groups are more upset than others. Michael Meloni, editor of Somebodythinkofthechildren.com has launched a new website called The Gift Of Censorship, and for every 1000 letters sent to Senator Conroy through the website, they’ll also deliver a bag of coal in a large red sack to the minister. More »
Back in 1979, the German Prime Minister announced that coal was the “fuel of the future,” and the energy industry was all abuzz about the possibilities, including coal-powered cars. Ha! Gasoline doesn’t look so bad now, eh? More »
Maybe you’ve heard the plans for “clean coal” (aka carbon capture and storage), a technology that collects carbon-dioxide exhaust from formerly high-polluting power plants, condensing and freezing it for storage in depleted natural-gas fields. This month, energy provider Vattenfall fired up the CO2 collection process at a plant in Spremberg (“Call Us ‘Spermberg’ and Die”) Germany. The plant’s transition is making green-energy history, but as you can imagine, some kinks still need to be worked out.
The U.S. Defence Advanced Researh Projects Agency–aka DARPA aka The Guys Who Run Area 51 and Have a Pact with the Aliens to Abduct the Entire Human Race in 2012–has turned its eyes to coal for aeroplane fuel. There’s only one problem: coal-to-liquid fuel technologies are too expensive and produce too much pollution. Until now.
