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  • By end-2011, the two countries also plan to set up a joint venture to upgrade low-grade coal to allow it to be used for heating and power generation, and to jointly invest about $300 million in a coal-gas power generation project, it said.

    Seoul Pushes Further on Foreign Energy Deals Min-Jeong Lee 2011

  • A compound of leather and library dust and cigar smoke, so sharp he could taste it, with a faint hint of something chemical—formaldehyde, perhaps, or coal-gas.

    Occupy Elm Street Tom Nolan 2012

  • This picture of a coal-gas plant outlined in fluorescent blue against an eerie night sky looks like something straight out of a really bad sci-fi film.

    Rabett Run EliRabett 2008

  • In 1804, the same year he patented coal-gas lighting, Winzer demonstrated the technology during a lecture at London's Lyceum Theatre.

    Jan. 28, 1807: Flickering Gaslight Illuminates Pall Mall 2008

  • No, its got to be ‘Diet Coke’ as after all coke is made from baking coal (that nasty fossil fuel) and so removing the water (the good GHG), coal-gas (mainly methane a nasty GHG) and coal-tar (nasty Group 1 carcinogen).

    The Coming Katrina Anniversary « Climate Audit 2006

  • *Also 1900-vintage open-burner gas cookstoves in two locations, good thing the coal-gas plant shut down back in the 1950s or the whole place could have gone boom long since, like that building in New York.

    Where's my hazmat suit? jhetley 2006

  • "No, it's exactly like adding air to coal-gas," Renna corrected.

    Dragon's Kin McCaffrey, Anne 2003

  • He awoke late, and with the disagreeable feeling of a man who has been half-suffocated with coal-gas: his head ached painfully.

    The Mysterious Portrait 2003

  • Unlike Recluce, Kyphros and indeed, all of Candar, did not use coal-gas lamps.

    The Magic of Recluce Modesitt, L. E. 1991

  • The air was heavy with coal-gas, and the door wouldn't budge.

    The Lunatic Fringe DeAndrea, William L. 1980

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