CTL would produce one-third of all fuels by 2050 without green policy

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) reports that a new assessment of the viability of coal-to-liquids (CTL) technology done by researchers from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, found that if climate...

'Greenification' is mining industry’s new global buzzword

Highlighting the historical importance of the mining sector in South Africa, Minister of Mineral Resources Susan Shabangu emphasised that the sector must also play a role in the country’s socioeconomic development in the future, and reiterated...

'Greenification' is mining industry’s new global buzzword

Highlighting the historical importance of the mining sector in South Africa, Minister of Mineral Resources Susan Shabangu emphasised that the sector must also play a role in the country’s socio-economic development in the future, and reiterated...

Coal on its way to a cleaner future

Significant resources are being put into transforming coal into a cleaner technology, and a new era needs to dawn for the fossil fuel, particularly in South Africa, where it will be an irreplaceable part of the energy mix for some time. Coal has...

Coal on its way to a cleaner future

Significant resources are being put into transforming coal into a cleaner technology, and a new era needs to dawn for the fossil fuel, particularly in South Africa, where it will be an irreplaceable part of the energy mix for some time.

Coal very much part of the energy mix of the future – UK Minister

UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Miliband said that he saw coal playing a role in the energy mix in the future, with the assistance of carbon capture and storage (CCS), because the coal of the future must be clean.

New centre aiming to build carbon capture and storage demo plant by 2020

South Africa’s Centre for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) will be opened in March this year, and will start working towards its vision of having a CCS demonstration plant operational in South Africa by 2020. South African National Energy...

Mmamabula power plant will be carbon capture ready, CIC assures

Although carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology is still some way from commercial implementation on a large scale, Toronto- and Botswana-listed CIC Energy, which plans to build a coal mine and power station at its Mmamabula project in...

FutureGen's 'time-out' disappoints Rio Tinto

THE decision by the US Department of Energy (DoE) to restructure – and thereby unavoidably to delay – its FutureGen project has been greeted with regret by global diversified mining major Rio Tinto. FutureGen is – was – a...

FUTUREGEN TIME-OUT . . .

Cover story on US FutureGen clean coal and carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project, and on other such projects, and on what CCS is.

State funding crucial to advance clean-coal technology

Government grants for research and development into carbon capture and storage (CCS) were critical for the big technology push required in this arena, Anglo American said on Tuesday.

South Africa years away from being 'country ready'

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is currently high on the fossil-fuel agenda as a means of mitigating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, which are seen as contributing to climate change. It is estimated that fossil fuel combustion liberates 26...