Coal has been with the same image attached to the skin for decades. Smoke, chimneys, huge power plants and a hard to defend climate footprint. But a team from the University of Shenzhen, led by Xie Heping, has presented a technology that tries to change just that more problematic point. The idea is not to burn coal in another way, but to stop burning it. Its proposal is called ZC-DCFC, a carbon fuel cell with almost zero carbon emissions. In pra…
Coal has been with the same image attached to the skin for decades. Smoke, chimneys, huge power plants and a hard to defend climate footprint. But a team from the University of Shenzhen, led by Xie Heping, has presented a technology that tries to change just that more problematic point. The idea is not to burn coal in another way, but to stop burning it. Its proposal is called ZC-DCFC, a carbon fuel cell with almost zero carbon emissions. In pra…