Sentences with phrase «as black coal»

EVs recharged from the current mix of electricity, such as black coal in the ACT, will only have slightly lower CO2 emissions than the average new car.

Not exact matches

Massey's name, now closely associated with MTR and the most deadly mine disaster in the past 20 years, has turned as black as the coal they mine.

«There are also other important measures to reduce methane emissions from coal mining, municipal waste treatment and gas distribution, for example, as well as black carbon emission reductions through elimination of high - emitting vehicles, use of cleaner biomass cooking and heating stoves, replacement of kerosene wick lamps with LED lamps and other measures,» adds Zbigniew Klimont of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, who also took part in the study.

The nanotubes make the sheet as black as coal, but only a small quantity is needed.

That's when a new steam engine fueled by coal allowed for greater production of the dirty black rock that then fired ever more new steam engines and inaugurated the industrial revolution — as well as the problem of climate change.

Efforts such as GreenGen bode well for resolving those complaints, but China is also moving ahead with efforts to turn coal into liquid fuel — a costly transformation that emits twice as much CO2 as does simply burning the black rock and consumes yet more energy.

Another study, published last year in Reviews of Geophysics, lists the man - made aerosols as coming from sulfates, nitrate and black carbon emitted by internal combustion engines, coal - fired power plants, slash - and - burn agricultural practices, and smoke from cooking.

Another Saturnian satellite, two - faced Iapetus, puzzles astronomers with one bright hemisphere and one that is as black as coal.

The nation has already overtaken the U.S. as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter largely because of the more than three billion metric tons of coal it burns annually — and several thousand miners die each year digging up the dirty black rock to feed China's energy needs, not to mention the health toll taken by choking air pollution caused by coal burning in the Middle Kingdom, estimated by the World Bank to cost the country $ 100 billion a year in medical care.

Burney is examining a similar trade - off between sulfur and black carbon in the United States, as coal - fired electricity plants shift to cleaner natural gas, which emits half as much CO2 as coal per unit of electricity.

To heat that boiler, the damp, crumbly brown coal known as lignite — which is even more polluting than the harder black anthracite variety — burns in the presence of pure oxygen, a process known as oxyfuel, releasing as waste both water vapor and that more notorious greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2).

It's lorded over by Stephen (an almost unrecognisable Samuel L. Jackson), an ageing house slave who might look like Uncle Ben off of the rice box, but who has a heart as black as coal, in particular when it comes to strangers in his midst.

The only one that acknowledges a possibility for the guys in the white hats to have a shadow as black as coal.

Lonely medical assistant Ruth (Melanie Lynskey, seething and magnetic, just as she was in Heavenly Creatures as a teenager) fumes at everything she sees: the obnoxious coal - roller in his monster truck spewing black smoke, the people who cut her off in line at the supermarket, the dog shit left on her lawn.

Once home to steel mills, coal mines, glassworks, and factories that produced chains, locks, leather, nails, cast iron and similar goods, the Black Country also inspired writers such as Elihu Berrit, whose Walks in the Black Country and Its Green Border - land begins: «The Black Country, black by day and red by night... is a section of Titanic industry, kept in murky perspiration by a sturdy set of Tubal Cains and Vulcans, week in week out, and oftBlack Country also inspired writers such as Elihu Berrit, whose Walks in the Black Country and Its Green Border - land begins: «The Black Country, black by day and red by night... is a section of Titanic industry, kept in murky perspiration by a sturdy set of Tubal Cains and Vulcans, week in week out, and oftBlack Country and Its Green Border - land begins: «The Black Country, black by day and red by night... is a section of Titanic industry, kept in murky perspiration by a sturdy set of Tubal Cains and Vulcans, week in week out, and oftBlack Country, black by day and red by night... is a section of Titanic industry, kept in murky perspiration by a sturdy set of Tubal Cains and Vulcans, week in week out, and oftblack by day and red by night... is a section of Titanic industry, kept in murky perspiration by a sturdy set of Tubal Cains and Vulcans, week in week out, and often...

Into this brave New World came my mother and father, English immigrants from Newcastle, land of lily - skinned, thick - skulled, black - lunged, Broon Ale - swigging Geordies, escaping a land as hard and cold as the coal you're not supposed to bring there.

Few experiences can beat the rustic bliss of sitting around a fire on the beach with fishsizzling on the coals and a black cast iron pot ready for the crayfish as the divers take it out of the water.

These pieces come in single colors such as diamond black, coal gray and golden beige.

I will have my robot with freeway ramps for arms and a heart as black as coal soon enough!

The former of these works was commissioned by the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen — a gallery set in one of Germany's coalmining regions — and appears as a huge mound of black coal, interspersed with red diodes, which is encircled by another part of the commission — Time Train to the Holocaust (2008).

You can almost see as a vestige of train trestle and this is kind of a strange like a coal car or something and you can see that he's transitioning into his more kind of iconic black and white works.

Untitled (Milton), an irregularly shaped canvas whose subtly contoured edges soften the intensity of the work, looks as though it has been charred — a burnt crust of thick black pigment mixed with wax sits alongside a strip of matte, coal - colored paint.

So the black gold from the mines is at the centre of this exhibition of large - scale installations and sculptures: The deep black of coal, its shimmering surface and tactile qualities were used as aesthetic resources by artists such as Marcel Broodthaers, David Hammons, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Bernar Venet or the ZERO group.

The text continues with an outside description of Soapy, who shifts throughout the text from a masculine he pronoun to feminine she one: «After his death, the physician who practiced his autopsy stated that her body did not contain a single drop of blood; his heart was the size of a peppercorn; his lungs corroded; his intestines rotten and gangrenous; she had a single testicle, black as coal, and her head was full of water.»

Mining and ballads have gone together through the ages, from the early days of coal extraction in Britain and Wales on through another standard I sing in Uncle Wade — Merle Travis's «Dark as a Dungeon» — and forward to Sting's tune «We Work the Black Seam.»

Coal companies and utilities have tried a new approach in defending black combustible rock as the fuel of the future, at least in Kansas.

In spite of the media's constant harangue over the dangers of using coal and this administration's war on coal, the future of coal isn't as black as one might think.

AGL says brown coal can still spin off cash flow even with a carbon price of more than $ 50 / t, particularly as the cost of gas and black coal is expected to increase dramatically in coming years.

The opportunity for the purchase was presented by a confluence of events — the Fukushima nuclear disaster last year, the generous support for brown coal generators in the government's carbon pricing package, which will see Loy Yang A alone get more than $ 1.2 billion in cash payments and free permits, and the anticipated sharp cost increases for NSW black coal generators as their subsidized source of coal comes to an end.

NSW still has the 2,000 MW Bayswater B Power Station on its books, as well as the revamp of the 700MW Munmorah Power Station, although AEMO noted that 550MW HRL Developments Dual Gas Demonstration Project in Victoria, and the 504 MW Stanwell Corporation integrated black coal gasification combined - cycle power station near Wandoan in Queensland, had been withdrawn.

The Alberta Department of Energy yesterday confirmed that coal, the lowly, grubby black stuff otherwise known as yesterday's fuel, will make a star appearance in Premier Ralph Klein's Throne Speech on Feb. 22.

The Alberta Department of Energy yesterday confirmed that coal, the lowly, grubby black stuff otherwise known as yesterday's fuel, will make a star appearance in Premier Ralph Klien's Throne Speech on Feb. 22.

Methane emissions derive mostly from landfills, agriculture (particularly rice farming), livestock, and natural gas and coal extraction, while soot, otherwise called «black carbon», results from the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and derives primarily from primitive cook stoves used throughout much of the developing world, as well as diesel engines and coal - burning power plants.

A perfect combo, The Moral Case offers an uplifting view of man's potential while coal serves as a reminder that even from the blackest of black can come light.

This document stated that Lobe B Leigh Creek coal is classified as sub-bituminous black coal and typically has a water content of 31 % and a carbon content of 35 %.

The National Black Chamber of Commerce is a proponent of coal power and hydraulic fracturing (fracking), as NBCC President / CEO Harry Alford revealed in a column supporting the Kemper power plant in Kemper County, Mississippi.

As a bit of black humor (pun intended), here's evidence that coal burning can emit more radiation than well run nuclear plants *.

Russell, if I was treating high quality black coal as the same as pure carbon it would be closer to 3.6 tons of CO2.

He also emphasized the need to target other fossil - fuel sources of black carbon, such as aviation fuel and coking coal.

Policies such as China's three - year moratorium on new coal mine approvals could also help reduce black carbon air pollution.

The meeting is to discuss proposed changes to MSHA rules to lower acceptable levels of respirable dust in mines to reduce the risk of workers contracting potentially fatal Coal Workers» Pneumoconiosis - also known as black lung disease - and other diseases.

Coal worker's pneumoconiosis — known as black lung disease or simply black lung — results from long - term exposure to coal dCoal worker's pneumoconiosis — known as black lung disease or simply black lung — results from long - term exposure to coal dcoal dust.

He doesn't have much liquid assets, so you may have to settle for a gift as compensation, even if it's just a black piece of coal.