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Or are they? Consol Energy Inc. doesnât believe so.
At a time when coal-fired facilities are diminishing in number, the Southpointe-based energy company has ambitious plans to construct one at or near its Pennsylvania Mining Complex in Greene and Washington counties.
And while coal has often been denounced as a notorious fossil fuel, a producer of climate-warming carbon emissions, Consol is viewing the resource as an ally that could be used at a plant that would result in zero carbon emissions â even negative emissions.
The project may not reach fruition, but Consol â whose coal roots were sown in 1864, during the Civil War â is proceeding. If all goes well, the company hopes to have the plant operating in 2028.
DOE to award $160M to improve fossil-based hydrogen production, transport, storage, and utilization
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) plans to make $160 million in federal funding (DE-FOA-0002400) available to help recalibrate the US’ vast fossil-fuel and power infrastructure for decarbonized energy and commodity production. The funding, for cost-shared cooperative agreements, is aimed to develop technologies for the production, transport, storage, and utilization of fossil-based hydrogen, with progress towards net-zero carbon emissions.
Fossil fuels currently provide the lowest cost pathway for producing hydrogen, according to cost data in a recent DOE/FE Hydrogen Strategy Document. The US will authorize advanced and novel technologies capable of improving the performance, reliability, and flexibility of methods to produce, transport, store, and use hydrogen. This will enable the US to continue to extract the maximum economic value from fossil fu
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Rice University scientists have extended their technique to produce graphene in a flash to tailor the properties of other 2D materials.
The labs of chemist James Tour and materials theorist Boris Yakobson reported in the American Chemical Society’s ACS Nano they have successfully “flashed” bulk amounts of 2D dichalcogenides, changing them from semiconductors to metallics.
Such materials are valuable for electronics, catalysis and as lubricants, among other applications.
The process employs flash Joule heating using an electrical charge to dramatically raise the material’s temperature to convert semiconducting molybdenum disulfide and tungsten disulfide.
The duration of the pulse and select additives can also control the now-metallic products’ properties.