Coal, a globally used fuel source, is also the reason behind most of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions. GreatPoint Energy has developed an alternative method to getting the energy from coal with reduced manufacturing cost, almost no emissions, and less complicated production steps.
Traditional methane production facilities house numerous components: First, coal is burned into syngas [...]

Industrial chemical manufacturers will be happy to know that a major venture is underway to produce cheap natural gas alternatives. In September, 2007 Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc.(SES), a company that builds and operates gasification plants, teamed up with the largest producer of bituminous coal in the U.S; CONSOL Energy. As stated in their first news [...]

Carbon dioxide goes into more products than we think. Sodas contain the pressurized gas, quick inflatable life jackets on planes contain CO2, it is used as a pesticide, dry cleaners use CO2 as an alternative to more toxic chemicals, CO2 is commonly used in the oil industry to force the oil to the surface and [...]

The last thing you would associate with coal is cleanliness: After all, this black sedimentary rock has been covered by dirt for hundreds of millions of years. Made up of a whole mess of carbons, nitrates, sulphur and other impurities, coal is all that is left of the plants that grew in a time before [...]