What exactly does clean coal mean? We know that mining coal creates dust and releases methane gas. We know that burning it liberates CO2 and emits particulates including SO2 and NOx. And we know that it creates wastes that are often stored in unsightly and potentially dangerous slag heaps and lagoons. When clean coal technology…
Too many Top-This-or-That-of-2008-type stories are published during the end-of-the-year holidays: who has time to read them all? That's why, here at Greenbang, we've saved the wrapup (and look ahead) feature till now.
Anyway, doing our Top-Stories-of-2008 story now makes sense in another way as well, as many of the factors affecting last year's big news events…
The Aussies put out their latest federal budget last week and, in between ringfencing the necessary cash to ensure the canonisation of pop pixie and national treasure ™ Kylie Minogue and an adequate supply of rope for the tying down of the country's kangaroos, sport, there's been an Uluru-sized windfall for the green building trade.
Assuming…