Posted: May 6, 2008 Post Expires: November 2, 2008
White Coal Source/Info for Power Plant?
We are working on a project to build a power plant in Massachusetts and looking for a local source of white coal as the source to create the power. In addition, we are looking for more information of the use of this product. Our focus is to provide power to local communities and beyond if program is successful. Plant will have the ability to burn coal; however white coal is reportedly cleaner, so we would prefer to go that route for a variety of reasons. Partner is prominent building contractor in the Northeast.
It's called ‘white coal' - it may be a byproduct combined with agricultural waste or a cleaner coal product. This may be an accurate definition of it, "White coal is a form of fuel produced by drying chopped wood over a fire. It differs from charcoal which is carbonised wood. White coal was used in England to smelt lead ore from the mid-sixteenth to the late seventeenth centuries. It produces more heat than green wood but less than charcoal and thus prevents the lead evaporating. White coal was produced in distinctive circular pits with a channel, known as Q-pits. They are frequently found in the woods of South Yorkshire."
