Category: coal
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March 19, 2025

From the Ashes: Coal Ash May Offer Rich Source of Rare Earth Elements
For most of history, the world got along fine without the rare earth elements. We knew they existed, we knew they weren’t really all that rare, and we really didn’t have much use for them — until we discovered just how useful they are and made ourselves absolutely dependent on them, to the point where […]
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March 4, 2019

Reducing Carbon Emissions With Coal
It might seem like a paradox, but coal might hold the answer to solving carbon emission problems. The key isn’t burning it, but creating it using carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.  While this has always been possible in theory, high temperatures make it difficult in practice. However, a recent paper in Nature Communications shows how […]
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