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| Subject: Demonstrating the future of 'clean coal' Sun Dec 16, 2012 7:16 pm | |
| If there is a future to clean coal, it may well be found in Banana Shire in central Queensland.
There, amid open-cut coalmines and the odd Queensland bottle tree, federal and state governments and the coal industry over the weekend unveiled the Callide Oxyfuel Demonstration Project.
Who will know what will be a breakthrough in the next decade?
Dubbed a ''vitally important step towards low-emission coal technology'', the 30-megawatt power plant was handed another $27 million to reach 10,000 hours of operations to prove the processes work.
By November 2014, funding for the formerly mothballed 43-year-old plant will exceed $230 million. Governments, federal and state, will supply almost 40 per cent, with about a third coming from a voluntary levy on the coal industry, and the balance from Japanese companies and Tokyo.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/carbon-economy/demonstrating-the-future-of-clean-coal-20121216-2bhib.html#ixzz2FGPefU6Y
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