«These will not reopen whatever anything President Trump does,» explains BNEF, «nor do we see much appetite among investors for ploughing money into
U.S. coal extraction — stranded asset risk will trump rhetoric.»
Not exact matches
He pledges to lower corporate taxes; support a fence on the
U.S. southern border to improve security; repeal the health care bill; issue tax credits to students attending non-public and charter schools; support domestic energy production, including oil drilling,
coal mining and natural gas
extraction; and invest in creating alternative energy sources.
Although fracking in the
U.S. produces more than 100 billion gallons of wastewater per year, the process requires significantly less water per unit of energy than
extraction and processing for
coal and nuclear power, according to past research by Jackson and his colleagues.
The study estimates that at current
extraction rates, China has another 50 to 70 years of
coal production, while the
U.S. and India have 200 years left.
Thus, the NETL analysis concluded that there was little difference in the total amount of life cycle climate pollution between «
U.S. LNG exports for power production in European and Asian markets... when compared to regional
coal extraction and consumption for power production.»