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01/29/2018 / By David Williams

Powering clean air: The world’s first power plant with negative emissions now in operation

It’s practically a given at this point that whenever a power plant is in operation, it is inevitably going to have at least some emissions. After all, the waste material from what’s being produced inside has to be expelled somewhere. But did you know that it’s possible for a power plant to have less than […]

04/24/2017 / By JD Heyes

Britain celebrates first “coal-free day” since beginning of the Industrial Revolution

When America’s greatest inventor, Thomas A. Edison, opened the Holborn Viaduct power station in London in 1882, Britain became the first nation on earth to use coal for electricity. The Observer, a newspaper from that time, reported that “a hundred weight of coal properly used will yield 50 horse power for an hour.” The paper […]

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