Exploiting China's Coal While It's Still Underground

China is pushing forward with a new strategy for expanding access to coal energy that could also reduce its environmental impact: turning coal into clean-burning gases in the ground.

At a U.K.-Chinese summit in Beijing late last month that included British prime minister David Cameron and Chinese premier Wen Jiabao, a $1.5-billion commercial partnership was launched to gasify six million tons of buried coal per year and generate 1,000 megawatts of power.

The project in Inner Mongolia's Yi He coal field is being advanced by the state-owned China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group, and U.K.-based Seamwell International, a newly formed developer of underground coal gasification (UCG) technology. It is the most high-profile of several such proposed projects in China. More than a dozen similar large-scale projects are under development in other countries, including the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Hungary. 

UCG is promoted as a relatively clean method of exploiting coal seams that are too deep or thin to be tapped economically using conventional mining. Such seams in Inner Mongolia hold an estimated 280 billion tons, according to Seamwell. That's more than double the tonnage of recoverable coal in China recognized by the London-based World Energy Council. UCG can also generate electricity from coal with less air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and water consumption than existing coal-fired power plants.

What remains to be proven, however, is whether UCG can operate at large scale without contaminating groundwater. Last week, Australian regulators laid charges against Melbourne-based UCG developer Cougar Energy for allegedly contaminating groundwater, and there are signs that this is a rising concern for Chinese regulators.

The chemistry of UCG-based power generation is akin to that of gasification power plants, such as the 250-megawatt GreenGen projected expected to start up late this year in Tianjin, China, in which heat and pressure turn coal into a combustible mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen known as syngas. UCG exploits drilling technology to engineer the coal seam itself into an underground gasification reactor. Wells drilled into the coal seam supply air or oxygen, and sometimes steam, to burn some of the coal, and generate heat and pressure to gasify more coal, and then deliver the resulting syngas to the surface.

China's largest pilot project suggests that UCG will be economically competitive, according to data presented this spring by Beijing-based energy giant ENN. Feng Chen, ENN's chief engineer for UCG, reported on 26 months of gasification at a CAN$1 billion ($155 million) UCG operation at Ulanchap, Inner Mongolia, which generates five megawatts of power. He projected that UCG can supply power 27 percent cheaper than plants such as GreenGen that gasify coal above-ground.

Sevket Durucan, a professor of mining and environmental engineering at Imperial College London and a technical advisor to Seamwell, says existing drilling data suggests the roughly 400-meter deep coal seam the U.K.-Chinese group is targeting could support a major UCG project. "There's quite a large deposit there. On paper it looks good," says Durucan. He says that additional drilling will begin this month in Inner Mongolia to confirm the site's promise as well as the project's environmental credentials.

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Exploiting China's Coal While It's Still Underground

China is pushing forward with a new strategy for expanding access to coal energy that could also reduce its environmental impact: turning coal into clean-burning gases in the ground.

At a U.K.-Chinese summit in Beijing late last month that included British prime minister David Cameron and Chinese premier Wen Jiabao, a $1.5-billion commercial partnership was launched to gasify six million tons of buried coal per year and generate 1,000 megawatts of power.

The project in Inner Mongolia's Yi He coal field is being advanced by the state-owned China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group, and U.K.-based Seamwell International, a newly formed developer of underground coal gasification (UCG) technology. It is the most high-profile of several such proposed projects in China. More than a dozen similar large-scale projects are under development in other countries, including the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Hungary. 

UCG is promoted as a relatively clean method of exploiting coal seams that are too deep or thin to be tapped economically using conventional mining. Such seams in Inner Mongolia hold an estimated 280 billion tons, according to Seamwell. That's more than double the tonnage of recoverable coal in China recognized by the London-based World Energy Council. UCG can also generate electricity from coal with less air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and water consumption than existing coal-fired power plants.

What remains to be proven, however, is whether UCG can operate at large scale without contaminating groundwater. Last week, Australian regulators laid charges against Melbourne-based UCG developer Cougar Energy for allegedly contaminating groundwater, and there are signs that this is a rising concern for Chinese regulators.

The chemistry of UCG-based power generation is akin to that of gasification power plants, such as the 250-megawatt GreenGen projected expected to start up late this year in Tianjin, China, in which heat and pressure turn coal into a combustible mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen known as syngas. UCG exploits drilling technology to engineer the coal seam itself into an underground gasification reactor. Wells drilled into the coal seam supply air or oxygen, and sometimes steam, to burn some of the coal, and generate heat and pressure to gasify more coal, and then deliver the resulting syngas to the surface.

China's largest pilot project suggests that UCG will be economically competitive, according to data presented this spring by Beijing-based energy giant ENN. Feng Chen, ENN's chief engineer for UCG, reported on 26 months of gasification at a CAN$1 billion ($155 million) UCG operation at Ulanchap, Inner Mongolia, which generates five megawatts of power. He projected that UCG can supply power 27 percent cheaper than plants such as GreenGen that gasify coal above-ground.

Sevket Durucan, a professor of mining and environmental engineering at Imperial College London and a technical advisor to Seamwell, says existing drilling data suggests the roughly 400-meter deep coal seam the U.K.-Chinese group is targeting could support a major UCG project. "There's quite a large deposit there. On paper it looks good," says Durucan. He says that additional drilling will begin this month in Inner Mongolia to confirm the site's promise as well as the project's environmental credentials.

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Namco Bandai files suit over Witcher 2's European publishing rights

Namco Bandai has filed suit against Optimus SA, the parent company of CD Projekt Red, for breaching its contract agreement over the publishing rights to The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. Having served as the European publisher of the PC version, Namco believes it should distribute the upcoming Xbox 360 copy. Much to the company's dismay, THQ recently announced that it secured the EU publishing rights to The Witcher 2 for the Xbox 360.

That's further complicated by the fact that Atari will distribute the Xbox 360 version in the US, as Namco Bandai acquired Atari Europe a few years back. As a side issue, Namco also claims that CD Projekt Red violated its contract by removing the DRM from PC copy of The Witcher 2 without Namco's approval. CD Projekt Red eliminated the DRM in a patch earlier this year after it was determined to reduce in-game performance by up to 30%.

While the suit is pending, Namco is withholding a payment of ?1.255 million (roughly $1.8 million). Unfortunately for the disgruntled publisher, CD Projekt has dismissed the claims, asserting that it hasn't done anything wrong. Based on Google Translate, the developer says it won't be bullied over a couple million bucks and by delaying the payment, Namco is only setting itself up to dish out the interest later. CD Projekt hopes to settle out of court but says it will win if the case goes before a judge, and then Namco will have to eat the attorney's fees too.

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Supposed phone number of News International?s Chief Executive leaked on Twitter

There appears to be no sign of this News of the World phone tapping story coming to a close, and possibly rightly so.

In the latest development, the supposed phone number of the person considered the scapegoat of the story, Rebekah Brooks (Guardian profile here), News International?s Chief Executive, has been leaked on Twitter by an anonymous @NOTWjourno account. While writing this story the account has deleted the tweet (along with almost every previous tweet) however the number is still being shared across the site almost every second.

We aren?t able to confirm if the phone number is genuine as it currently, and unsurprisingly, goes straight to a standard voicemail.

The anger towards Brooks stems from it becoming clear that she would keep her job while NOTW staff would lose theirs. Audio of Brooks? meeting with staff following the announcement that the paper is to close can be found here.

Update: The account that originally tweeted the phone number has been deleted. Fortunately we have screenshots.

Update 2: The account has now been reopened but frankly it all seems to be turning into a bit of a farce so we won?t be updating until the dust has settled.

Update 3: It seems the account has now been taken over by someone else with the new account holder saying:

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Presidential Candidates Warn About Debt Deal

The action by Mr. Boehner, which was announced Saturday night, illustrated just how difficult negotiations had become in this political climate to reach agreement on a sweeping plan to lower the deficit without an infusion of new tax revenues.

Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota seized on the issue and used the first television commercial of her campaign to highlight her opposition to raising the debt ceiling. She drew enthusiastic applause on Saturday as she amplified her position.

?It?s time for tough love,? Mrs. Bachmann told supporters at a rally. ?Don?t let them scare you by telling you that the country?s going to fall apart.?

Tim Pawlenty, a former Minnesota governor, who was critical of the deal brokered this year between Mr. Obama and Mr. Boehner that averted a government shutdown, said he was not convinced of the dire consequences predicted by Democrats if no deal was reached and the government lost its authority to borrow on Aug. 2.

?I hope and pray and believe they should not raise the debt ceiling,? Mr. Pawlenty told voters here last week. ?These historic, dramatic moments where you can draw a line in the sand and force politicians to actually do something bold and courageous are important moments.?

The sharp stances, which have been building for days, complicated efforts to reach an agreement by Mr. Boehner, an Ohio Republican; Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the minority leader; and Mr. Obama, who were scheduled to resume deliberations at the White House on Sunday evening. The Republican leaders faced the prospect that their party?s presidential candidates were criticizing their efforts, which could complicate the leaders? efforts to find the votes they would need.

With their own campaigns only a year away, many Republicans in Congress are turning to the party?s presidential candidates for an early sign of how the budget issue is playing in the minds of voters. The grass-roots conservative opposition to a deal that includes any kind of tax increase or fails to cut government spending substantially has been frequently aired at town-hall-style meetings with the candidates and in calls to talk radio programs, and it has overshadowed discussions of the potential economic fallout should the government actually default.

Fellow Republicans say Mrs. Bachmann?s position would influence House colleagues who see her as a reliable measure of the Tea Party zeitgeist.

?Michele is a good barometer,? said Representative Jack Kingston, Republican of Georgia. ?The Tea Party really likes her.?

Despite the effort that Mr. Boehner had been putting into structuring a deal that Republicans could support without breaking any no-tax-increase promises, his announcement Saturday evening underscored the political reality that many Republicans in both houses were opposed to increasing the debt ceiling no matter what concessions they might win.

On the presidential campaign trail, Representative Ron Paul of Texas said Republicans should not accept any deal that includes a tax increase, calling it a ?ploy.? While Mrs. Bachmann has suggested that virtually no bipartisan deal would be acceptable, Mr. Pawlenty told voters last week that ?if it comes to a point where they feel that they must,? he said a balanced-budget amendment was an essential trade-off.

Mitt Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts, has said he would agree to increasing the debt limit only if a deal was ?accompanied by a major effort to restructure and reduce the size of government.? Jon M. Huntsman Jr., a former governor of Utah, has said spending cuts must be equal or greater than the value of any debt ceiling increase but told reporters Saturday in Florida: ?I have every confidence that cooler heads are going to prevail.?

Nearly three dozen House Republicans and another dozen in the Senate have joined most of the Republican presidential candidates in signing a pledge that they will not vote to support the debt limit increase unless Congress approves a balanced budget-amendment to the Constitution, which is unlikely. (Mrs. Bachmann declined to sign the pledge, because she wanted to include a repeal of the Obama health care plan.)

Much of the freshman class that provided the party with its majority in the House has been skeptical of warnings about economic upheaval that would follow a government default, as well as of the Treasury Department?s insistence that there will be nothing more it can do to keep the government solvent after Aug. 2.

Republicans could face harsh consequences if they oppose a debt ceiling increase, the government defaults on some of its obligations and there are calamitous financial repercussions.

But many Republicans see supporting any agreement as carrying more political risk. Put into power in part by the Tea Party movement, Republicans who vote to raise the debt limit could suddenly find themselves looking at challenges from within.

The relative newcomers to Congress say they are weighing the issue extremely carefully and are awaiting the specifics of any deal. They know the hazards and are comparing it to the vote in 2008 to approve the bank bailout, a vote that has come to haunt some Republicans.

?This, I think, will be one of the toughest votes that any member of Congress is going to have to take,? Representative Aaron Schock, Republican of Illinois, said in a recent speech.

The situation in the Senate is markedly different from the House. Senate Republicans are in the minority, which is something of a luxury because Democrats will be called upon to produce most support for a debt deal.

Seeing themselves within reach of winning the Senate majority in 2012, Republicans are eager to watch threatened Democratic incumbents forced to vote for a package that could represent a politically unappetizing trifecta: a debt ceiling increase, reductions in popular social programs like Medicare and possible tax increases.

The importance and the intensity of the budget debate was clear in interviews with Republican voters last week who came to see some of the presidential contenders speak in Iowa. Whenever a candidate spoke about the debt limit, crowds expressed dismay at the idea of raising it.

At a rally on Saturday afternoon, the crowd cheered when Mrs. Bachmann declared her intention to vote against any compromise. She referred to Congress as ?a dysfunctional family.?

?We need a new day in Washington,? she said. ?We need a new sheriff.?

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Presidential Candidates Warn About Debt Deal

The action by Mr. Boehner, which was announced Saturday night, illustrated just how difficult negotiations had become in this political climate to reach agreement on a sweeping plan to lower the deficit without an infusion of new tax revenues.

Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota seized on the issue and used the first television commercial of her campaign to highlight her opposition to raising the debt ceiling. She drew enthusiastic applause on Saturday as she amplified her position.

?It?s time for tough love,? Mrs. Bachmann told supporters at a rally. ?Don?t let them scare you by telling you that the country?s going to fall apart.?

Tim Pawlenty, a former Minnesota governor, who was critical of the deal brokered this year between Mr. Obama and Mr. Boehner that averted a government shutdown, said he was not convinced of the dire consequences predicted by Democrats if no deal was reached and the government lost its authority to borrow on Aug. 2.

?I hope and pray and believe they should not raise the debt ceiling,? Mr. Pawlenty told voters here last week. ?These historic, dramatic moments where you can draw a line in the sand and force politicians to actually do something bold and courageous are important moments.?

The sharp stances, which have been building for days, complicated efforts to reach an agreement by Mr. Boehner, an Ohio Republican; Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the minority leader; and Mr. Obama, who were scheduled to resume deliberations at the White House on Sunday evening. The Republican leaders faced the prospect that their party?s presidential candidates were criticizing their efforts, which could complicate the leaders? efforts to find the votes they would need.

With their own campaigns only a year away, many Republicans in Congress are turning to the party?s presidential candidates for an early sign of how the budget issue is playing in the minds of voters. The grass-roots conservative opposition to a deal that includes any kind of tax increase or fails to cut government spending substantially has been frequently aired at town-hall-style meetings with the candidates and in calls to talk radio programs, and it has overshadowed discussions of the potential economic fallout should the government actually default.

Fellow Republicans say Mrs. Bachmann?s position would influence House colleagues who see her as a reliable measure of the Tea Party zeitgeist.

?Michele is a good barometer,? said Representative Jack Kingston, Republican of Georgia. ?The Tea Party really likes her.?

Despite the effort that Mr. Boehner had been putting into structuring a deal that Republicans could support without breaking any no-tax-increase promises, his announcement Saturday evening underscored the political reality that many Republicans in both houses were opposed to increasing the debt ceiling no matter what concessions they might win.

On the presidential campaign trail, Representative Ron Paul of Texas said Republicans should not accept any deal that includes a tax increase, calling it a ?ploy.? While Mrs. Bachmann has suggested that virtually no bipartisan deal would be acceptable, Mr. Pawlenty told voters last week that ?if it comes to a point where they feel that they must,? he said a balanced-budget amendment was an essential trade-off.

Mitt Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts, has said he would agree to increasing the debt limit only if a deal was ?accompanied by a major effort to restructure and reduce the size of government.? Jon M. Huntsman Jr., a former governor of Utah, has said spending cuts must be equal or greater than the value of any debt ceiling increase but told reporters Saturday in Florida: ?I have every confidence that cooler heads are going to prevail.?

Nearly three dozen House Republicans and another dozen in the Senate have joined most of the Republican presidential candidates in signing a pledge that they will not vote to support the debt limit increase unless Congress approves a balanced budget-amendment to the Constitution, which is unlikely. (Mrs. Bachmann declined to sign the pledge, because she wanted to include a repeal of the Obama health care plan.)

Much of the freshman class that provided the party with its majority in the House has been skeptical of warnings about economic upheaval that would follow a government default, as well as of the Treasury Department?s insistence that there will be nothing more it can do to keep the government solvent after Aug. 2.

Republicans could face harsh consequences if they oppose a debt ceiling increase, the government defaults on some of its obligations and there are calamitous financial repercussions.

But many Republicans see supporting any agreement as carrying more political risk. Put into power in part by the Tea Party movement, Republicans who vote to raise the debt limit could suddenly find themselves looking at challenges from within.

The relative newcomers to Congress say they are weighing the issue extremely carefully and are awaiting the specifics of any deal. They know the hazards and are comparing it to the vote in 2008 to approve the bank bailout, a vote that has come to haunt some Republicans.

?This, I think, will be one of the toughest votes that any member of Congress is going to have to take,? Representative Aaron Schock, Republican of Illinois, said in a recent speech.

The situation in the Senate is markedly different from the House. Senate Republicans are in the minority, which is something of a luxury because Democrats will be called upon to produce most support for a debt deal.

Seeing themselves within reach of winning the Senate majority in 2012, Republicans are eager to watch threatened Democratic incumbents forced to vote for a package that could represent a politically unappetizing trifecta: a debt ceiling increase, reductions in popular social programs like Medicare and possible tax increases.

The importance and the intensity of the budget debate was clear in interviews with Republican voters last week who came to see some of the presidential contenders speak in Iowa. Whenever a candidate spoke about the debt limit, crowds expressed dismay at the idea of raising it.

At a rally on Saturday afternoon, the crowd cheered when Mrs. Bachmann declared her intention to vote against any compromise. She referred to Congress as ?a dysfunctional family.?

?We need a new day in Washington,? she said. ?We need a new sheriff.?

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Google suffers its first major bug: Multiple email notifications

If you have been using Google+ this afternoon/evening (depending on where you are), you may have experienced what looks to be one of the first major Google+ bugs; multiple email notifications.

Many users have taken to Twitter to voice their displeasure at receiving the notifications, especially those that have switched off email correspondance in their Google+ settings. Whilst many have been receiving a handful of emails, many have received over 50 messages alerting them that a friend had added them to a Circle:

Twitter user @aeazel reports the following:

Google+, I just turned off notifications today. Why did I receive 30 emails about the same person adding me to a circle?

Gmail accounts are starting to resemble something similar to this (thanks @dustinbrewer):

The cause it not yet known but we have contacted Google to find out the cause. In the meantime, Twitter user Daniel Obenshain has said that turning off notifications and re-enabling them again will fix the issue.

We will update the article as soon as we receive a response.

UPDATE: Google+ chief, Vic Gundotra has just posted an apology for the bug, which he says lasted for 80 minutes.

Please accept our apologies for the spam we caused this afternoon.

For about 80 minutes we ran out of disk space on the service that keeps track of notifications. Hence our system continued to try sending notifications. Over, and over again. Yikes.

We didn?t expect to hit these high thresholds so quickly, but we should have.

Thank you for helping us during this field trial, and once again, we are very sorry for the spam.

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HDMI Org says Mini DisplayPort-to-HDMI cables are illegal

If you've been meaning to pick up a Mini DisplayPort-to-HDMI cable, you may want to act quick and get 'em while they're hot. According to HDMI Org, the committee that oversees the HDMI specification, such wires are illegal and could disappear from stores. Speaking with TechRadar, the group claims that any cable with a male Mini DisplayPort connector on one side and a male HDMI connector on the opposite side is unlicensed and shouldn't be on your local Best Buy's shelves.

Backing its claims, the organization underscored a few lines from the HDMI specification. One line specifies an HDMI cable as having only HDMI connectors -- anything else is unpermitted. If that's not convincing enough, the group also said that all HDMI products undergo compliance testing as defined by the Compliance Testing Specification. Since mDP-to-HDMI cables aren't mentioned in the HDMI specification, there are no tests associated with the product, so they can't be approved.

Interestingly, cables with a male mDP connector alongside a female HDMI receptacle are fine because a licensed HDMI cable can be attached. Apple is currently one of the largest proponents of mDP and happens to sell one of the unapproved cables online. It's unclear how HDMI Org will address the situation, but it does acknowledge that there is a market for an mDP-to-HDMI cable instead of a dongle -- they just want to do it by the book. It's worth noting that MonoPrice has already discontinued its mDP-to-HDMI offerings.

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HDMI Org says Mini DisplayPort-to-HDMI cables are illegal

If you've been meaning to pick up a Mini DisplayPort-to-HDMI cable, you may want to act quick and get 'em while they're hot. According to HDMI Org, the committee that oversees the HDMI specification, such wires are illegal and could disappear from stores. Speaking with TechRadar, the group claims that any cable with a male Mini DisplayPort connector on one side and a male HDMI connector on the opposite side is unlicensed and shouldn't be on your local Best Buy's shelves.

Backing its claims, the organization underscored a few lines from the HDMI specification. One line specifies an HDMI cable as having only HDMI connectors -- anything else is unpermitted. If that's not convincing enough, the group also said that all HDMI products undergo compliance testing as defined by the Compliance Testing Specification. Since mDP-to-HDMI cables aren't mentioned in the HDMI specification, there are no tests associated with the product, so they can't be approved.

Interestingly, cables with a male mDP connector alongside a female HDMI receptacle are fine because a licensed HDMI cable can be attached. Apple is currently one of the largest proponents of mDP and happens to sell one of the unapproved cables online. It's unclear how HDMI Org will address the situation, but it does acknowledge that there is a market for an mDP-to-HDMI cable instead of a dongle -- they just want to do it by the book. It's worth noting that MonoPrice has already discontinued its mDP-to-HDMI offerings.

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Weekend Open Forum: Is spam still a big problem for you?

Have you noticed any less spam in your inbox lately? You should, according to Symantec Intelligence, which claims the volume of junk mail sent worldwide has dropped around 80% over the past year. A large part of this came from the demise of affiliate networks paying for spam campaigns, such as Spamit, and coordinated efforts between the tech industry and law enforcement to kill major spam networks such as Rustock.

To be honest, Gmail's spam filter does a highly effective job of filtering out the garbage from my personal email account, so spam hasn't been a huge problem for me in a while -- though my TechSpot inbox still lets a few shady messages slip by. 

But we want to hear your experience: is spam a big issue for you? If so, how much of your daily email comes from unsolicited sources? Do you use custom filters or special software to keep your inbox free of junk?

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