U.S. plants to burn less coal in 2009: EIA
The Energy Information Administration revised down its forecast of the amount of coal that will be burned in 2009 in its monthly short-term outlook.
Last month the EIA forecast that the United States would burn 1.2 percent less coal in 2009.
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LONDON - BMW is hanging in there with hydrogen. That’s what Oliver Zipse, the chairperson of BMW, reiterated during an interview last week in Goodwood, England.
“After the electric car, which has been going on for about 10 years and scaling up rapidly, the next trend will be hydrogen,” he says. “When it’s more scalable, hydrogen will be the hippest thing to drive.”
BMW has dabbled with the idea of using hydrogen for power for years, even though it is obscure and niche compared to the current enthusiasm surrounding vehicles powered by electricity. In 2005, BMW built 100 “Hydrogen 7” vehicles that…
