Sentences with phrase «coals under ground»

In another box, Smil quotes from «An Inquiry Into the Condition of the Women Who Carry Coals Under Ground in Scotland,» published in 1812.

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Momentum is growing worldwide to look closely at the idea, a 150 - year - old technique of igniting seams of coal deep under the ground to produce electrical power or chemicals.

To do so, explains PurGen project manager Tim Bauer, coal is ground up and heated under pressure in the presence of oxygen.

• our future rests on a vague Government hope that we can continue to burn coal at ever - increasing rates and at some point bury the problem under the ground;

Scientists have shown that most of the coal, oil and gas reserves such companies own will have stay in the ground if the global rise in temperature is to be kept under 2C.

Under a 2 - degree scenario, Citigroup says about one - third of oil reserves, half of natural gas reserves, and 80 per cent of coal reserves need to stay in the ground.

Reports from the ground indicate Baruva village is under consideration as a possible site, despite the fact it is located near Sompeta — the village that «launched» the anti-coal movement in India when over 3,000 people rose up to stop a coal plant.

Photo credit: wsilver via Flickr / CC BY Clean coal is friendlier - sounding euphemism for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), the technological conceit of snagging emissions belched out by coal plants and storing them under ground in order to keep them

Shannon Hughes is a Climate Guardian working to keep coal in the ground under the Climate and Energy Program.

How much oil, gas and coal will we have to leave in the ground to stay under 2 degrees of warming.