Sentences with phrase «coal transportation costs»

Coal transportation costs are prohibitive and «clean coal» plants cost almost as much as nuclear plants.

Then we have the matter of coal transportation costs increasing as well.

They are now paying the economic scarcity penalty and see rising prices due to coal transportation costs from elsewhere.

Not exact matches

Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass: Technological Status, Costs, and Environmental Impacts

Paul Epstein, associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, details the economic, health and environmental costs associated with each stage in the life cycle of coal — extraction, transportation, processing, and combustion.

Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass: Technological Status, Costs, and Environmental Impacts

Then let's take the pile of money already wasted on coal - liquefication and coal - gasification while ignoring the energy and environmental costs and use it for making direct solar energy the fuel for transportation, also all over the planet.

Currently they estimate that adding CCS capabilities to a coal - fired power plant would increase the price of the electricity produced by upwards of 60 percent, without including the cost of CO2 transportation, injection or monitoring.

Sen. Doug Ericksen sent a letter to the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) on Thursday asking them to reverse their decision directing Washington's three investor - owned electric utilities to include carbon emissions and climate change damages in estimates of their coal - plant operation costs.

We expanded our business in the 1990s and 2000s by purchasing additional high quality coal reserves strategically located near customers and convenient and low cost modes of transportation in Northern Appalachia, the Illinois Basin, and in Utah.

The study, which was released in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, tallied the economic, health and environmental costs associated with each stage in the life cycle of coal — extraction, transportation, processing, and combustion - and estimated those costs, which are borne by the public at large, to be between $ 175 billion and $ 500 billion dollars annually.

Dr. Ramage chaired the National Acdemies reports «The Hydrogen Economy: Opportunities, Costs, Barriers, and R&D Needs», «Resource Requirements for a Hydrogen Economy», «Alternative Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass», and «Transitions To Alternative Transportation Technologies: A Focus on Plug - In Hybrid Electric Vehicles».

Environmental costs of coal combustion: health; agriculture; industry, transportation, materials, buildings and infrastructure; water pollution; pollution of heavy metal to soil; solid waste of coal burning and electricity generation.

From 2010 to 2011, CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion decreased by 2.5 % due to: (1) a decrease in coal consumption, with increased natural gas consumption and a significant increase in hydropower used; (2) a decrease in transportation - related energy consumption due to higher fuel costs, improvements in fuel efficiency, and a reduction in miles travelled; and (3) relatively mild winter conditions resulting in an overall decrease in energy demand in most sectors.

Environmental costs from coal transportation: noise; waste gas; damage to roads; traffic accidents