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11 - New technologies to the rescue?

A review of three game-changing coal technologies and their implications for Australia’s black coal industry

from Part IV - The potential of technology to reconcile coal and climate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2015

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Bart Lucarelli
Edited by
Mark C. Thurber  and
Richard K. Morse
Mark C. Thurber
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
Richard K. Morse
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
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The Global Coal Market
Supplying the Major Fuel for Emerging Economies
 , pp. 475 - 556
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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