Sentences with phrase «amount of coal»

For electricity production, coal and natural gas are the most important resources and the United States has a large amount of coal and natural gas.

A single three megawatt turbine in Australia can be expected to generate 8.8 GWh of electricity each year; on the assumption that this replaces the same amount of coal - fired power and based on the figures published in The Lancet, each such turbine will save two serious illnesses each year.

There has been a dramatic increase in the amount of coal entering BC since 2010.

13The amount of coal distributed by State of origin and State of destination is reported on Form EIA - 6, «Coal Distribution Report,» for consuming sectors other than electric utilities, and on Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Form 423, «Monthly Report of Cost and Quality of Fuels for Electric Plants,» for utility coal by rank.

The geologists on the job were not surprised at the extraordinary amount of coal revealed — they commented that every province they had explored for coal seam gas in Australia, the US, China and India had similar results (as will Antarctica).

If 1000 SCF of natural gas is required for a barrel of syncrude, and we can make 10000 SCF from a ton of coal (lignite) by coal gasification then 200 billion barrels of bitumen / syncrude can be made from 20 billion tons of coal which is about the same amount of coal (URR) in British Columbia.

Future Chinese production is dominated by the amount of coal reserves China has, and can add by 2050.

They were met with success on April 4th, when the Miami University of Ohio announced they would immediately begin reducing the amount of coal burned on campus and eventually eliminate it altogether.

Chandler took a slightly different view, going as far as saying that the MRV issue in China was in his opinion «a little overrated» because there are many things that can in fact be measures - investments into the energy sector is tracked, there are meters on wind turbines to measure electricity generation, and the amount of coal consumed is reported, he cited just by way of examples.

For the UK to be on track to achieve the emission reductions required by the Climate Change Act, it would have to become as carbon efficient as France by about 2015; which magnitudinous challenge would require the equivalent of the UK constructing and putting into service about 30 new nuclear power stations in the next five years, while retiring an equal amount of coal - fired generation!

McKibben closes his case by highlighting research by the Carbon Tracker Initiative which reports that burning the total amount of coal, oil and gas reserves currently held by fossil fuel companies would release five times the amount of carbon needed to stay under the two - degree threshold.

I have a simple technical question for PE or anyone who knows: When you ramp down a coal plant to 50 % — do you «ramp down» also the amount of coal burned = amount of emissions?

It is actually hard to see because the amount of coal export from there is so incredibly tiny that is is barely perceptible relative to the exports from the Seattle Customs District, which covers the Cloud Peak shipments to Westshore.

This is due to the amount of coal burning power stations that provide electricity for the grid in the UK.

For this study, we linked monthly data on the amount of coal stored on - site at each of 236 coal - fired power plants across the United States to measurements from nearby air quality monitors.

While it's impossible to know precisely, since coal mining companies can adjust the amount of coal they extract as market conditions change, we will base our calculations on an assumption that this coal will be mined and burned during a period beginning in 2015 and ending in 2030.

The amount of coal capacity retired last year represents nearly 5 percent of total U.S. coal capacity.

«The drop in CO2 emissions is largely the result of low natural gas prices, which have contributed to natural gas displacing a large amount of coal used for electricity generation.»

After conducting what he described as «more rigorous» calculations, Gervasi concluded «that the total release of CO2 from producing Natuna gas and burning of the LNG manufactured from the gas would be almost twice that emitted by burning an equivalent amount of coal.»

Those attribution studies, such as Foster & Rahmstorf 2011 and others have aptly noted this, and, though they might not admit it, McKitrick & Tole 2012 are saying something similar... include the change in the amount of coal burned along with some of the GCM's and you can be much better at having a better model of the surface climate trends.

However, you might notice that in 2011 and 2012 there is a significant amount of coal capacity being built.

An analysis by Michael Shellenberger, president of an independent group called Environmental Progress, says that V.C. Summer reactors would reduce coal generation in South Carolina by 86 percent, an amount of coal that produces pollution equivalent to 3.8 million cars.

They write that «In particular, the way researchers modeled the acid gas requirements under MATS had a large impact on the forecasted amount of coal - fired capacity and generation going forward, as well as the pollution controls that would be installed at these units and their emissions of acid gases.»

[E] xperts say the real reason China underreported the amount of coal it's burning is probably more a matter of bureaucratic inefficiency than underhanded plotting.

Japan can hit its 2020 target by restarting 9 of its 50 shut nuclear power plants (again, assuming no new increase in demand), replacing an equivalent amount of coal.

While it viewed the moratorium as «poor policy,» Peabody enjoys «a comfortable amount of coal reserves,» Svec said.

We know the vast amount of coal burned by China to produce manufactured goods (that could have been produced user cleaner energy if not for Kyoto) produces huge amounts of carbon soot that can change the albedo.

Although the United States produces a large amount of coal (about 728 million short tons in 2016), some power plants along the Gulf Coast and the Atlantic Ocean sometimes find it cheaper to import coal from other countries than to obtain coal from U.S. coal - producing regions.

But Strahan does not report about new research about the actual, physical amount of coal in the ground, but a fairly old and clunky way of divining that same data from proxies.

In the end, they ended up retiring an amount of coal capacity roughly proportional to the lost demand from California.

Still going to need one humungous amount of coal to make all those wind turbines and solar panels, isn't it, naïve one.

China continues to lead the world in the amount of coal power capacity under development, despite tightening restrictions on new coal plant projects by the Chinese authorities.

It is the amount of coal burned is what determines ghg emissions.

The amount of coal capacity retired in 2015 was about 4.6 % of the nation's coal capacity at the beginning of that year.

For example, if a massive global nuclear expansion was one way of savagely reducing the amount of coal and natural gas burned in power stations (which it is) and the cost disadvantage of nuclear wasn't completely silly (which it isn't) then that could work.

Given the large variations in C02 levels over the earth's history, not to mention the amount of coal in the ground, it would be fair to say that the rate of carbon entering and exiting the cycle is variable.

These additional supplies have helped displace a significant amount of coal for power generation, leading to a reduction in U.S. energy - related greenhouse gas emissions to levels last seen in the 1990s.

In per - capita terms Australia has among the highest greenhouse gas emissions in the world, yet the Australian Turnbull Government is resisting efforts to reduce those emissions and is trying to increase the amount of coal mining, coal burning and coal exporting.

Interestingly, despite significant demand growth, even the total amount of coal - generated electricity would fall in absolute terms.

The trend continues through 2011, with July reaching a new monthly peak at over 4.7 billion kilowatthours (kWh), although these levels are still well below the amount of coal and nuclear electric generation within the state.

A forensic examination of publicly available power - supply data shows Victoria's carbon - intensive brown - coal power stations do not reduce the amount of coal they burn when wind power is available to the grid.

While there is a lot of coal geologically, and a fair amount of coal close enough to either ports or load - centers so that it is cheap at the power plant, there is not enough of this accessible, cheap coal to meet growing demand in Asia.

[citation needed] The amount of coal burned during 2001 was calculated as 2.337 GTOE (gigatonnes of oil equivalent), which is about 46 million barrels of oil equivalent per day.

The amount of coal extracted and burned (along with the oil) will influence climate for centuries to come.

It's like we're all in this train which increases its speed a certain amount per amount of coal added, but we don't know exactly how much; we only have a range.

Between all of your research into new resource buildings and other things, then, you have to consider increasing the range of your generator and the amount of heat it can output, but for each new increase the amount of coal the generator consumes is vastly increased, straining your ability to get the black fuel out of the ground fast enough.

The amount of coal produced from federal leases and associated revenues have increased since 1990, although production has leveled off since 2002.

After conducting what he described as «more rigorous» calculations, Gervasi concluded «that the total release of CO2 from producing Natuna gas and burning of the LNG manufactured from the gas would be almost twice that emitted by burning an equivalent amount of coal.»

«By reducing the amount of coal, we reduce the cooling effect of the aerosols.»

Natural gas is by far the cleanest - burning fossil fuel, producing about half as much carbon dioxide as the energy - equivalent amount of coal.