Talk:white coal

white coal
the woodchips sense seems from a google to be some companies marketing term, but maybe there's something on google books I missed. Conrad.Irwin 15:22, 19 September 2009 (UTC)


 * I don't think so, no: the marketing term seems to refer to a process applied to low-grade coal to make it better. I can't find any uses or mentions, spammy or otherwise, of this chopped-wood sense; however, there does seem to be a sort of vague general sense along the lines of "any fuel seen as cleaner than regular coal". (See e.g. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/pune-to-take-cue-from-blore-waste-disposal/476222/.) But the hydroelectricity uses dominate; even looking at just the past ten years (in Google Books and in Google News Archive), most hits are either reprints of old works talking about hydroelectricity, or new works talking about how hydroelectricity was once called "white coal". —Ruakh TALK 21:55, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

RFV failed, sense removed. —Ruakh TALK 19:58, 19 July 2010 (UTC)