Coal granules are prepared for loading into a reactor that converts coal to char and coal liquids, which will eventually be turned into graphite and gas in another reactor. Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S.

ORNL researchers created and tested two methods for transforming coal into the scarce mineral graphite, which is used in batteries for electric vehicles and renewable energy storage. The U.S.

A large section of the Fifth Estate, that world company of scientists, climbed the Allegheny Mountains to Pittsburgh last week. They knew soft coal, what it was and what could profitably be done with ...

On a cool morning in late February, Mark Fix was up before the sun to watch the Tongue River on his ranch in southeast Montana. He was concerned that a breaching ice dam could put his cattle and ...

A giant excavator with sharp points on a rotating piece runs along a wall of solid coal and creates piles of ground-up coal beneath it in a tunnel with a low ceiling and artificial lighting, as people ...

The coal's share in India's electricity mix is currently at 70 per cent. India achieved over one billion tonnes of coal ...