In the Union Budget 2022-23, the Union Finance Minister has announced four <\/span>coal gasification-pilot projects will be set up.\u00a0<\/span>However, this announcement is contrary to the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)\u2019s assessment about the coal gasification process not being attractive from a climate change point of view.<\/span><\/p>\n Coal gasification is a process in which coal is partially oxidised with air, oxygen, steam or carbon dioxide to form a fuel gas. This gas is then used instead of piped natural gas, methane and others for deriving energy.<\/span><\/p>\n China has the biggest number of coal gasification projects in the world. 5% of China\u2019s total coal consumption is from its gasifier. The US also has some coal gasification plants running.<\/span><\/p>\n Click Here to read more<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Firstly,<\/b> Coal gasification actually produces more carbon dioxide than a conventional coal-powered thermal power plant.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 According to CSE estimates, one unit of electricity generated by burning gasified coal generates 2.5 times more carbon dioxide than what would result when burning the coal directly.<\/span><\/p>\n Secondly, <\/b>coal gasification plants are costlier than conventional power plants.<\/span><\/p>\n Thirdly,<\/b> since coal is the main feed for gasification, it in no way helps India’s decarbonisation goals.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article<\/span> \u201cUnion Budget 2022-23: Why CSE disagrees with government\u2019s proposal on coal gasification\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> Down To Earth on 4th February 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? In the Union Budget 2022-23, the Union Finance Minister has announced four coal gasification-pilot projects will be set up.\u00a0However, this announcement is contrary to the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)\u2019s assessment about the coal gasification process not being attractive from a climate change point of view. What is Coal Gasification?… Continue reading Union Budget 2022-23: Why CSE disagrees with government\u2019s proposal on coal gasification<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10504,10514],"class_list":["post-166422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-down-to-earth","tag-dte","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704950910},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Coal Gasification?<\/b><\/h5>\n
Why is the Coal Gasification process not good from a climate change point of view?<\/b><\/h5>\n