Japan strives to clean up, reprieve coal from climate pressure
Japan strives to reprieve coal from climate-change pressure as the global race continues to find cheap power generation without carbon burden, writes Ben Potter.
Australia's $16 billion in thermal coal exports could be protected from climate change pressures by ultra-low emission power stations that Japan's electricity industry is seeking to export through Asia.
On a tiny island in Japan's Inland Sea neear Hiroshima, Osaki Coolgen Corp is building a $US900 million experimental high tech power station which turns coal into gas generating steam to drive turbines.
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