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Utility Wanted: Loss of Coal Giants Ups Pressure On FutureGen, DOE

In addition to the high price and the incredibly slow pace of R&D, the technology for capturing and sequestering carbon emissions from power plants is facing another potential hiccup: earthquakes. That’s according to Stanford geophysicist Mark Zoback. Read more »

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This afternoon the DOE announced that power company Ameren has stepped up to drive a new version of FutureGen that the DOE has dubbed FutureGen 2.0. Thus the DOE says it will still award the project $1 billion out of the stimulus package. Read more »

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AppleGazette’s Kevin Whipps addresses the quandary over how to choose between a MacBook and a MacBook Pro, noting that it used to be that if you wanted a 13-inch Mac laptop (excluding the MacBook Air), the only option was the original MacBook. Now with a 13-inch […] Read more »

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So much for the “rapid restart” that Department of Energy Chief Steven Chu had in mind for the FutureGen project, a controversial public-private initiative to test experimental carbon capture and storage technology at a new 275 MW coal plant. Less than two weeks after Chu announced […] Read more »

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Development of the public-private “cleaner coal” demo project known as FutureGen has been anything but smooth sailing. Plans for a 275 MW coal-fired power plant equipped with experimental carbon capture technology ran hugely over budget in the early stages, and hit a dead end when the […] Read more »

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What a tangled web the federal government has woven with the FutureGen project. Last week, we wrote about a new show of support from Energy Secretary Steven Chu for the scuttled public-private initiative to build a cleaner coal plant with experimental technology for capturing and storing […] Read more »

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FutureGen, a planned 275 MW cleaner coal demo project, essentially bit the dust last year when the Bush administration pulled funding. But with support from top officials in the new administration, the effort to build a coal-fired power plant equipped with experimental carbon capture technology has […] Read more »

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The market for video games is changing profoundly, and a comparison of two prominent titles’ recent sales figures shows just how much: Wii Fit, a game largely marketed to women, is outpacing the latest installment of one of the industry’s biggest franchises, Grand Theft Auto. Read more »

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The success of the iPhone, both the original and the recently released 3G model, has fueled rumors that Microsoft is working internally on a similar phone built on the Zune audio player.  The Zune player has failed to compete against the iPod family as grandly perhaps […] Read more »

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It seems FutureGen’s clean coal announcement last week was a bit premature. The Department of Energy (DoE), the main financier of the $1.8 billion clean coal project, has released a statement questioning the cost of the project. FutureGen plant is coal powered, but it would emit […] Read more »

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As usual, the annual Yearly Kos convention of liberal bloggers spawned a few new ideas, including this one: a labor union for bloggers. The idea immediately drew a great deal of online discussion, ranging from reasoned consideration to howls of derision. With many web workers running […] Read more »

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The hype machine is in full swing if the recent interest in new media by big business is any indication. At the Milken Institute conference Wednesday, Forbes managing editor Dennis Kneale moderated a discussion with News Corp. COO Peter Chernin, former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller, Yahoo […] Read more »

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There has been a lot of complaining about the lack of new features in The WWDC keynote yesterday. I guess Apple geeks get very excited at the prospect of a new OS. I know I was queueing with everybody else for the Tiger launch. But there […] Read more »

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