Not exact matches
Higher
use of oil and gas in transport, heating and industry would
lead EON and RWE to export its surplus energy from
coal, gas, and nuclear to other European markets that are lagging behind.
It was technological change, above all the discovery of how to
use the energy concentrated in
coal and oil, that
led to the Industrial Revolution and subsequent boom.
The International Energy Agency estimated last year that both the decline in China's
coal use and falling electricity demand reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by 1.5 percent in 2014,
leading to a 0.2 percent reduction in global emissions.
Within the OECD,
coal use will drop by 0.7 percent a year,
led by a 2.5 percent drop in U.S. demand per year to 600 million metric tons in 2017, the IEA said.
«If there is substantial natural gas leakage, then building new natural gas plants would
lead to more near term climate damage than
using the old dirty
coal plants,» explained Caldeira.
December 8, 2017 India's steel industry, like America's, is dominated by electric - based processes November 20, 2017 Link between growth in economic activity and electricity
use is changing around the world November 16, 2017 Growth in global energy - related carbon dioxide emissions expected to slow November 8, 2017 EIA forecasts growth in world nuclear electricity capacity,
led by non-OECD countries October 25, 2017 China
leads the growth in projected global natural gas consumption October 10, 2017 Buildings energy consumption in India is expected to increase faster than in other regions October 4, 2017 Global gas - to - liquids growth is dominated by two projects in South Africa and Uzbekistan September 27, 2017 Chinese
coal - fired electricity generation expected to flatten as mix shifts to renewables September 19, 2017 Beyond China and India, energy consumption in non-OECD Asia continues to grow September 14, 2017 EIA projects 28 % increase in world energy
use by 2040
Similarly, some have suggested that the US gas boom has depressed
coal prices, potentially
leading to increased imports and
use by other countries.
Using rudimentary elements such as cotton, burlap, coffee,
coal, rolled
lead, scissors, stones, or steel i - beams, Kounellis creates works of evocative juxtapositions and powerful repetitions.
Those with heaps of
coal (
led by the U.S. and China) want to
use it.
The House in the summer of 2009 passed a bill outlining a cap - and - trade system that could, over the next few decades,
lead to an early end to conventional
use of
coal and oil, fuels that have underpinned prosperity and growth for more than a century.
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Leading to Their Demise?
Original post In 2011, a Cornell research team
led by the environmental scientist Robert Howarth published «Methane and the greenhouse - gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations,» a widely discussed paper positing that gas escaping from drilling operations
using hydraulic fracturing, widely known as fracking, made natural gas a bigger climate threat than the most infamous fossil fuel,
coal.
I think this emerging form of emissions accounting provides a valuable way to show how the growing
coal (and natural gas) greenhouse - gas emissions commitment will play out, but — because of the competing social and economic values embedded in that extracted energy, along with the equity argument poor countries
use against established fossil - powered industrial giants — I'm not sure it
leads to a more effective strategy for cutting those emissions.
I've talked a lot about my published work in (1) carbon sequestration soil work (trees and sorghum); (2) co-firing test burns in every major type of
coal technology (cyclones, pulverized
coal, IGCC) for SO2 and NOx reductions; (3) ethanol (for octane requirements not
using lead or MTBE).
The effect of the project activity is that
coal users start to
use an alternative top - down ignition technique that
leads to a 50 % reduction in
coal consumption and GHG emissions.
He suggests that a decline in
use of «baseload»
coal - fired plants could
lead to electric grid instability.
Leading executives from the solar and wind industries went on the offensive this week at a climate conference in Paris, telling
coal executives that renewable energy is the future, and that they had better get
used to it.
Drilling the crude oil,
coal and natural gases from an beneath the earth has a number of environmental challenges such as extensive land deformation and deforestation; which
leads to a wastage of productive land that can be
used as a plantation to boost the economy, water catchments and to grow human food.
The increasing
use of
coal for power generation in ASEAN countries will
lead to widespread construction of
coal - fired power plants, which, without the
use of the best available cleaner
coal technology (CCT), would result in increased greenhouse gas and carbon dioxide emissions.
The increasingly polluted air means people spend more time indoors, which increases energy demand from lighting and air conditioning,
leading to more
coal and wood
use.
EIA's study indicates that for the United States as a whole, a 10 % increase in the ratio of the delivered fuel price of
coal to the delivered price of natural gas
leads to a 1.4 % increase in the
use of natural gas relative to
coal.
I accept a level of hypocrisy because to engage with every injustice all the time is not only to open ourselves up to way too much suffering but can
lead to a form of self - disarmament (consider for example the committed climate activist who won't
use fossil fuel transportation on principle and therefore can't get to the action to shut down the
coal plant — who comes out losing?)
It will only
lead to oil sands being
used more and the liquidification of
coal will become economical.
As a general rule, in the SRES scenarios an increasing affluence causes energy
use per capita to rise and
leads to the substitution of solid fuels, such as
coal and fuelwood, with energy forms of higher quality.
The government's interest in reducing China's
use of
coal and petroleum products extends beyond environmental and health concerns; it sees both the strategic value of mitigating its reliance on foreign oil and the economic advantages of being on the technological
leading edge of energy production.
Beyond the US, the fracking that has
led to much of the US decrease has not yet expanded rapidly, but given that the technology exists (and is getting further refined every day) the rest of the world will also enjoy reduced CO2 emissions by
using nat gas instead of
coal.
But Jevon argued that the efficient
use of
coal due to Watt's invention
lead to more application of
coal and therefore more consumption and faster growth in the economy.
In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network, a media outlet that also seems to double as a propaganda arm of the Trump administration, Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt said his Christian convictions
led him to conclude that America should
use gas and
coal freely because natural resources exist purely for man's benefit.
Lead author Katarzyna Tokarska and her colleagues estimated that massive amounts of carbon dioxide will be released into the air if all the world's reserves of
coal, oil and gas are
used up.
All 14 of the best methods to reduce methane and soot identified by the team of scientists — including capturing methane at landfills and
coal mines, cleaning up cook stoves and diesel engines, and changing agriculture techniques for rice paddies and manure collection — are already being
used efficiently in many places, but are not universally adopted, the study's
lead author, Drew Shindell of NASA, told the Associated Press.
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The model results indicate that for the United States as a whole, a 10 - percent increase in the ratio of the delivered fuel price of
coal to the delivered price of natural gas
leads to a 1.4 - percent increase in the
use of natural gas relative to
coal.
The report also found that China is
leading the way in the
use of HELE technologies and that if India were to shift its planned
coal profile (a mix of all three technologies) to total adoption of an ultra-supercritical
coal fleet it could achieve savings of 509 million tonnes of CO2 annually.
The bloggers over at Powerline,
led in this case by the Koch - cozy John Hinderaker, are all in a tizzy this week after the New York Times reported that Tom Steyer, a major political force in the fight for climate justice,
used to invest heavily in
coal mining operations.
Gill's LinkedIn profile reveals that, in addition to his post at IOP, he works for the Energy Institute, a «
leading professional body for the energy industries» that advocates «the safe, environmentally responsible and efficient supply and
use of energy in all its forms,» and that he started his career with an outfit called
Coal Processing Consultants LTD..
Since May 2012, a combination of higher prices for natural gas and increased demand for electricity during the summer months
led electric systems across much of the country to increase their
use of
coal - fired units.
Authoritative sources such as EarthTrack have placed the fossil fuel industry's tax and fiscal subsidies at around $ 25 billion a year, a figure that pales beside the roughly $ 1,000 billion (one trillion dollars) paid annually for
coal, oil and natural gas burned in the U.S. Do the math: withdrawing those subsidies would
lead to at most a 2 - 3 percent rise in the market prices of fossil fuels — scant incentive to reduce their
use and concomitant emissions of CO2.
This might
lead coal - rich countries to
use less
coal and more oil and gas, thus lowering their emissions.
CAVT is
used in several Synapse analyses to identify and investigate
coal units at risk for retirement, including two studies led by Mr. Knight for the Energy Foundation: Displacing Coal: An Analysis of Natural Gas Potential in the 2012 Electric System Dispatch (August 2013), and Forecasting Coal Unit Competitiveness: Coal Retirement Assessment Using Synapse's Coal Asset Valuation Tool (October 20
coal units at risk for retirement, including two studies
led by Mr. Knight for the Energy Foundation: Displacing
Coal: An Analysis of Natural Gas Potential in the 2012 Electric System Dispatch (August 2013), and Forecasting Coal Unit Competitiveness: Coal Retirement Assessment Using Synapse's Coal Asset Valuation Tool (October 20
Coal: An Analysis of Natural Gas Potential in the 2012 Electric System Dispatch (August 2013), and Forecasting
Coal Unit Competitiveness: Coal Retirement Assessment Using Synapse's Coal Asset Valuation Tool (October 20
Coal Unit Competitiveness:
Coal Retirement Assessment Using Synapse's Coal Asset Valuation Tool (October 20
Coal Retirement Assessment
Using Synapse's
Coal Asset Valuation Tool (October 20
Coal Asset Valuation Tool (October 2013).
And competition in the electricity market has so far favoured
use of brown
coal,
leading to increased emissions.
This growth is expected to
lead to a significant increase in carbon dioxide emissions of nearly 900 million tonnes through 2050, or about the same level of emissions growth as from
coal use in the power and the entire industry sector combined.
Air pollution from burning
coal, driving cars, and
using fire to clear land, among other activities, is the fourth -
leading cause of death worldwide, killing about 5.5 million people each year.
December 8, 2017 India's steel industry, like America's, is dominated by electric - based processes November 20, 2017 Link between growth in economic activity and electricity
use is changing around the world November 16, 2017 Growth in global energy - related carbon dioxide emissions expected to slow November 8, 2017 EIA forecasts growth in world nuclear electricity capacity,
led by non-OECD countries October 25, 2017 China
leads the growth in projected global natural gas consumption October 10, 2017 Buildings energy consumption in India is expected to increase faster than in other regions October 4, 2017 Global gas - to - liquids growth is dominated by two projects in South Africa and Uzbekistan September 27, 2017 Chinese
coal - fired electricity generation expected to flatten as mix shifts to renewables September 19, 2017 Beyond China and India, energy consumption in non-OECD Asia continues to grow September 14, 2017 EIA projects 28 % increase in world energy
use by 2040
To stop global warming, we must virtually eliminate the
use of
coal worldwide Dr. James Hansen, one of our nation's
leading experts on global warming, is very clear about the necessary attributes of any solution: we must stop building new
coal plants immediately and start retiring existing
coal plants worldwide.
Rising utility bills: Over 90 % of the executives surveyed believe that rules requiring the
use of more renewable energy and a cut in pollution from
coal - fired power plants will
lead to higher monthly utility bills for consumers.
Flashback 1992: Gore: «We should be taking the
lead in the development of clean
coal technologies... So we are going to be
using coal for a very long time.
Phasing out this
coal fired capacity will thus mean that higher order capacity will need to be
used at an earlier stage, involving higher costs and thus
leading to higher electricity prices.
Encana had carried out shallow drilling to extract methane gas from
coal beds
using a technique known as hydraulic fracturing, which Ernst believes has
led to the contamination of her water supply.