On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 18:04:09 +0000 (UTC), "John"
wrote:


"Matt" wrote in message
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On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:03:31 GMT, "dennis@home"
wrote:


Incidentally the clean coal research was mainly to allow us to burn cheap
imported coal and not the stuff that is still in the ground.

Not sure where that idea came from, the whole basis of the program was
to enable the use of high sulphur coal commonly found IN the UK! They
sited the large scale test facility where it was for precisely that
reason!


Was this the fluid bed combustion system which I vaguely recall reading
something about at one time?

Yes, now sadly siezed by the Yanks as "invented there"


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