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105 comments on 3000 billion tons of coal off Norway's coastline

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mikeB on January 6, 2006 - 7:59pm Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
"By injecting oxygen, we can ignite the coal where it is. This will produce a mix of gas which we can recover and use for energy-production. The problem however, is that one of the components of this gas mix will be the greenhouse gas CO2. We have to research a lot before we can utilize the resource in a way that doesn't harm the environment."

Cripes, this sounds to me like a terribly, terribly desperate way to harvest energy.

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Engineer-Poet on January 6, 2006 - 10:07pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Look at the process of oxygen-blown coal gasification.  The similarities are remarkable, and the cold-gas efficiency can run 76% or more.
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