As the global demand for sustainable energy solutions continues to grow, Lithuanian researchers have taken a step forward by developing a technology that not only transforms waste into valuable ...

United Technologies Corp.’s rocket-motor division is negotiating a deal to license technology to China to demonstrate coal-gasification as a more efficient, less polluting alternative fuel source.

Researchers at MIT have come up with a plan to generate electricity from coal with much greater efficiency — possibly reaching as much as twice the fuel-to-electricity efficiency of today’s ...

Poland’s Institute of Coal Chemistry is progressing with a detailed design assessment and economic study for this novel clean energy facility Once in operation, this SES Gasification Technology ...

Sundrop Fuels, a startup based in Longmont, Colorado, says it has found a way to break into the notoriously difficult advanced biofuels business: it’s putting its advanced technology on hold for now, ...

The technology sounds ultra-futuristic: concentrated solar heat that can vaporize biomass (wood, crop waste, etc.) intosynthetic fuels. But the process, developed by Sundrop Fuels, is real, and it can ...

HOUSTON, Jan. 12-- West Hawk Development Corp., Vancouver, BC, and Shanxi Lu'An Coal Mining (Group) Co. Ltd. of Changzhi City, China, have agreed to jointly develop an underground coal gasification ...

There’s a lot of coal in the ground. In 2006, the U.S. Energy Information Agency estimated that global coal reserves (i.e., the total quantity of coal that can be economically produced) stood at ...

Phibro—an independent commodity merchant company based in Stamford, Conn.—through its affiliate Philipp Brothers Fertilizer, recently announced that it is acquiring a clean coal gasification plant ...

A system to generate electricity from coal with much greater efficiency has been designed by researchers, possibly reaching as much as twice the fuel-to-electricity efficiency of today's conventional ...

When Congress approved a broad overhaul of U.S. energy policy last summer, chemical manufacturers were disappointed that the measure offered no immediate relief from soaring natural gas prices and ...