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BRACE YOURSELF FOR COAL INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Coal is on the comeback
Margret Kopala, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Monday, May 21, 2007

Brace yourself for another industrial revolution. Coal is back. The highly combustible, carbon-rich mineral deposit that was formed over millions of years from decayed plant matter fuelled the first industrial revolution. More than an economic development, it is etched in the psyche of nations where coal mining meant lives lost, labour strife and the genesis of enduring political movements.

Today, thanks to rapidly developing clean coal technologies, coal is stoking the next industrial revolution. This is good news because despite centuries of accumulated noxious emissions, coal remains embedded in the deepest reaches of the world's economies, where it is the largest single source of electricity and produces over 70 per cent of the world's steel. According to Natural Resources Canada, coal mining, coal transportation and coal-fired electricity generation (25 stations in six provinces) together account for 73,000 jobs and $5.8 billion (1 per cent) of Canada's GDP.

Better still, and unlike oil and gas, it's cheap, exists in abundance around the world and is evenly distributed. This virtually eliminates any geopolitical risk to energy supply. In North America, coal accounts for 90 per cent of all hydrocarbon reserves, which in Canada means an estimated 1,000 years of production remains. And unlike nuclear energy, coal presents no storage problems.

In all, coal promises to fill the gaps in the less reliable renewable sources and to stretch what remains of the non-renewable.

Clean coal technologies are variations on the themes of capturing, storing, reducing and eliminating noxious emissions such as sulphur and nitrogen oxides, as well as the carbon dioxide many believe is responsible for climate change.

Capturing and storing emissions is called carbon sequestration, a process that is being closely studied at the EnCana oil fields near Weyburn in southern Saskatchewan. One of 10 recognized projects by the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum, the International Weyburn Carbon Dioxide Monitoring Project is a collaboration between 19 research organizations in Canada, the United States and Europe, and industry.

Because of declining production, EnCana developed a CO2-enhanced oil recovery project to extend the life of its Weyburn field. Here, CO2 is piped from a coal gasification plant in Beulah, North Dakota and injected into the ground, where it dissolves and dislodges otherwise inaccessible oil.

According to usinfo.state.gov, captured gases can be dissolved in deep oceans or saline aquifers, converted to solid materials, absorbed by grasses, trees, soils and algae, or injected into geologic formations such as old oil and gas fields or coal beds that cannot be mined. Once injected, the CO2 appears to stay put, but geologists are still investigating this, which is why the Weyburn project, now in its second phase, is so important. So far, too, this technology is expensive and is being used mainly for enhancing oil recovery, but full sequestration technology is planned for two power plants, in the U.S. (FutureGen) and Scotland.

In the meantime, EPCOR Utilities Inc.'s 450-megawatt supercritical coal-fired power plant, the first of its kind in Canada, was opened in March 2005 near Edmonton. A Library of Parliament paper published in December, 2005, says higher temperatures and pressures in supercritical boilers create a "more efficient and less emissions-intensive process for generating electricity from coal combustion (that can also) be retrofitted to existing coal-fired units." Supercritical boilers have a proven track record, and a new technology called a Thermo-energy Integrated Power System (TIPS) appears to achieve zero emissions.

Whether climate change, air purity or energy security, clean coal potentially addresses all the issues. Not surprisingly, the world's keenest jurisdictions are jumping on the bandwagon: British Columbia now requires carbon sequestration of all coal-fired projects. In New Brunswick, a task force has called for clean coal technology to be the "benchmark" for any new power plant's performance. A senior U.S. official recently stated "It is the president's view: Technology is the solution," to curb global warming. His top pick? Carbon sequestration.

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=09f2407c-73ee-4042-8c1e-5f71111cff96

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THE U.S.A. HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO USE ITS 250 YEAR COAL SUPPLY TO BECOME ENERGY INDEPENDENT WITH THE NEW COAL GASIFICATION TECHNOLOGY FOR A CLEANER ENVIRONMENT. SILVERADO HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE FEEDSTOCK FOR THE NEW COAL GASIFICATION PLANTS.

Silverado Vice President, Dr.Warrack G. Willson's low-rank coal-water fuel (LRCWF) process using sub-bituminous (low grade) coal is far superior to other bituminous ( high grade) coal feed stock on the world market today. The (LRCWF) process doesn't require any added expensive chemicals to make it burn, like other processes that have cut corners to make their feed stock work.. In tests, the (LRCWF) has a 99.8 % complete combustibility burnout. The (LRCWF) can be used as a feed stock for any coal gasification process that ends up as jet fuel, diesel fuel, natural gas and etc.

The Department of Defense scientists have examined Silverado green fuel inc. hydrothermal treatment process used in creating Green Fuel and commented that they are impressed with both the technology and the possibility of using this alternative energy as a raw feedstock for the production of synthetic fuels. The Low-Rank Coal-Water Fuel (or Green Fuel) produced by Silverado’s Hydrothermal Treatment Process has been identified as a good feedstock for gasification and follow-on Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis to supply clean synthetic fuels.

Silverado’s green fuel can be used for electricity generation or industrial heat. There are hundreds of commercial, industrial and utility oil-designed boilers in use in America today which, with minor adaptations to their feeder components and addition of particulate capture devices, may enjoy Silverado’s Green Fuel, made from America’s abundant reserves of low rank coal. In addition to the above uses, Green Fuel can be used as a feedstock for advanced high-pressure gasifiers like the one developed by Texaco and now marketed by GE as part of their integrated gasification combined cycle Clean Power package. Following gasification the synthesis gas can be used for power generation or reassembled into new petrochemicals such as aviation fuel, gasoline, diesel fuel, hydrogen for fuel cells, plastics, fertilizers, explosives, urea, ammonia, CO2 for enhanced recovery in oil well production, all free of sulfur, heavy metals and particulate matter.

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