'Electricity with zero emission' — Chinese scientists aim to transform “dirty” coal with a…

• ZC-DCFC converts coal into electricity without combustion or turbines
• Xie Heping’s system bypasses Carnot limits with direct electrochemical conversion
• Coal powder reacts inside fuel cells to instantly generate electricity

For more than a century, coal has carried an environmental stigma which few other energy sources share.

The familiar image of smokestacks belching gray fumes has become shorthand for industrial pollution and climate damage.

Yet, a research team led by Xie Heping at Shenzhen University now claims to have entirely rewritten that narrative.

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The team claims its technology does not burn coal at all and produces electricity without releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

The system, described as a zero-carbon-emission direct coal fuel cell, or ZC-DCFC, replaces heat-driven processes with direct chemical-to-electric conversion inside a controlled cell environment.

Instead of setting coal on fire, the system pulverizes the fuel into a...

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