Sentences with phrase «as coal»

We also hope the work will stimulate government investment as coal mining declines throughout the region, enabling a just transition to a new economy.

By contrast, there are those to avoid, such as coal industry stocks.

Global anthropogenic emissions of mercury presented here are based on emission inventories and include industrial emissions as well as coal combustion.

A solar power plant uses merely 12 % as much water as a coal power plant.

Compared to other methods of energy generation such as coal burning or natural gas extraction, wind power is much better.

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

But «clean coal» is something different: The process of removing and storing CO2 emissions as the coal is burned.

Today's move could potentially boost carbon - intensive industries, such as coal companies and heavy manufacturers, while reducing demand for low - carbon alternatives.

Natural gas has been promoted as a «bridge fuel» even by some environmentalists because it emits half as much CO2 as coal to produce a given amount of electricity.

While natural gas emits only half as much carbon dioxide as coal when used for power generation, methane leaks during production can undermine this climate benefit.

As coal fired generation is retired and intermittent renewables come online, the role of gas in our energy mix will become even more vital.

Natural gas emits about half as much carbon dioxide per unit of energy as coal does.

Natural gas is often touted as a cleaner fuel because it emits approximately half the carbon dioxide as coal when used for power generation.

When coal is burned it leaves behind a grey powder - like substance known as coal ash.

Solar power currently employs more than twice as many people as the coal industry, and entry - level jobs pay a much higher wage than average.

The 21st century has seen renewable energy generation boom as coal declines.

At the point of combustion, natural gas is roughly half as carbon - intensive as coal.

Next, the wind investor is required to pay the government exactly as much per kWh generated as the coal plant would pay for coal.

Growth in the power sector is due to increased demand for electricity, but natural gas's share does not increase as coal and renewable energy also compete for the power sector market.

Due to these methane emissions, natural gas can be as bad for the climate as coal.

At the same time, they have been holding out the prospect of «clean coal» — in which carbon is captured and stored as coal is burned.

This is a process we hope can be changed, as coal goes bankrupt, and renewable energy becomes the main source of power.

What these dry government numbers leave out is the effect on coal workers and their families as coal mines close and one major coal company after another files for bankruptcy.

Coal fires are as ancient and as widely distributed as coal itself.

The point was to prove that a nuclear power facility could be built as cheaply as a coal - fired power plant, and the key to that was a smaller safety system.

Given that solar and wind may take as much time to mature as coal will to die out, the best bet for investors now is natural gas.

Furthermore, he said, the «fuel» associated with solar generation is free and not subject to the same market variability as coal and natural gas.

While not officially recognised as a coal phase - out plan, the effect will be the same.

The proposed coal export terminals have serious implications for rail congestion in the region as well as road congestion due to delays as coal trains pass through towns.

The appeal of that trade - off has diminished considerably as coal's costs have risen.

You need to be reported as the coal lobbyist that you are.

Additionally, natural gas contributes half as much to global warming as coal, but natural gas air pollution kills many fewer.

But if new reports are to be believed, that conventional wisdom about running a campaign on coal could be suffering the same fate as the coal industry itself.

Some greenhouse gases occur naturally in the atmosphere, while others result from human activities such as burning of fossil fuels such as coal.

It has begun to burn wood pellets as well as coal.

As coal mines close, how do local communities find new forms of employment and tax revenue?

It warns that the targets will remain far out of reach so long with continued exploitation of fossil fuels, such as coal burning for electricity and continued exploitation of unconventional oil and gas.

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

If the best anyone can say about natural gas is that it's not as bad as coal, then lingering on the bridge makes no sense.

As some coal companies have faced financial challenges in recent years, we've also seen reports of coal workers being kicked off health care or losing their retirement funds.