Sentences with phrase «as coal when»

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

A $ 30 - a-tonne carbon tax would make gas — which is about half as polluting as coal when burnt — the preferred fuel for new power stations.

Not exact matches

When Premier Rachel Notley announced Alberta's new climate change strategy over the weekend, analysts and pundits rushed to gauge the impact on the oilsands and on the electrical generation business, still dependent as it is on coal.

Let's not forget that when Australia burns or sells coal it is contributing to this global problem as well.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

There's no way to predict what will happen next in coal, but Teck is definitely moving in a good direction when you look at the business as a whole.

The stark drop in natural gas prices from an all - time high of more than $ 15 per 1,000 cubic feet in 2005 to near $ 4 today results from a range of factors including the global economic downturn, competitive coal prices, unusually warm winters, the improvement of hydraulic fracturing («fracking») drilling techniques, and the production of natural gas as a byproduct when drillers frack for petroleum.

I think Zeus would be opposed to lumps of coal, as they tend to ignite when struck by lightening bolts.

When recounting the birth of a coal miner's calf he described it as a sacred event, analogous to the birth of Christ, with the numinous quality of a beautiful painting:

Cross-posted on K Street Cafe Even in the Early Days of epolitics.com, back when we powered the servers with wood, coal and fuel - grade mummies, plenty of people were already predicting the demise of email as a marketing / communications tool.

Other GOP lawmakers have been more vocal in defending last year's federal Stream Protection Rule as one necessary to beat back what they perceive as overreaching regulatory actions, specifically when it comes to protecting the coal industry.

Enck criticized Trump for moving to abandon the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, and for «using coal miners as media props» when he announced his decision.

Exxon Mobil also touted its status as the United States» No. 1 natural gas producer, noting that gas emits significantly less CO2 than coal when burned to generate electricity.

Cheap gas makes coal uneconomical «The agency disingenuously refers to its rule as path forward for coal, when in fact it's a dead end,» Segal said in an interview.

Natural gas, which is mainly methane, may generate less carbon dioxide than oil and coal when burned, but as recent research has found, there's more to greenhouse gas emissions than just combustion.

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.

CO2 is formed when any kind of organic material or fossil fuel, such as natural gas, petroleum, coal or gasoline, is burned.

If a dinosaur stepped through mud instead of sand, the prints themselves wouldn't survive as fossils; because of its high organic content, mud turns into crumbly coal when compressed beneath other sediment layers.

And on unusually sunny and windy days — such as on 8 May, when for about 4 hours wind and solar power generated more than 90 % of the electricity that Germany consumed — they must swiftly order coal and gas - fired power stations to reduce their output lest an influx of power «congests» the grid and increases the risk of failures.

After some residents passed out from carbon monoxide inhalation and another fell into the earth in 1981, when the ground suddenly collapsed — as the coal burns away, the ground above it often subsides into the resulting cavity — Pennsylvania received $ 42 million from Congress to relocate Centralia's residents.

First identified by William Jevons in 1865 — when he noticed more efficient engines increased rather than reduced coal use, as engines were put into more widespread use — the rebound effect for higher yields could see food prices drop, encouraging greater consumption, more food waste and even more conversion of habitats to farmland.

The numbers held when they examined potential CO2 storage sites close to the nation's largest greenhouse gas emitters, such as coal plants.

Natural gas is often touted as more sustainable than coal and oil because it releases fewer pollutants when it burns.

As electricity use spikes across the country in the summertime when more people use air conditioning, electric power companies turn to more coal and natural gas power plants to help meet the demand, reducing renewables» share of total U.S. power generation, Comstock said.

We are at present, far from seeing a practical mode of replacing that granary of force, the coal - fields; but we may with confidence rely on invention being in this case, as in others, born of necessity, when the necessity arises.

I get carbon for A$ 100 a tonne in the form of coal, and sodium for A$ 500 a tonne when bought as salt for my pool.

Ontario became the first province in Canada to become coal - free in electricity generation as of 2014, a year earlier than anticipated when Ontario's premier pledged in 2002 to end all coal - fired power in the province.

When trees in vast forests died during a time called the Carboniferous and the Permian, the carbon dioxide (CO2) they took up from the atmosphere while growing got buried; the plants» debris over time formed most of the coal that today is used as fossil fuel.

When grilling, cook the meat with indirect heat, such as on a rack rather than directly on the coals.

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.

When interrogated on the safety of the coal mine, Amos squirms in his chair, his eyes to the floor as he insists on having no memory of the accident.

The reproductions are made from pure compressed fuel ash: a particulate byproduct of coal refinement, which is utilized as a filler and substitute material for all manner of construction and consumer purposes due to its light weight and inherent cementing properties when molded with water and pressure.

When finally completed, it will stand as the world's largest generator of hydro - electric power, with a yearly output equal to that of fifty million tons of coal or fifteen nuclear power plants.

And when he talks about others ways to provide energy, he's talking about burning twice as much coal by 2030.

China is bound to be dependent on coal for energy — we can not afford oil as an alternative when it costs more than US$ 100 dollars (680 yuan) a barrel.

Compared to coal, the [climate] footprint of shale gas is at least 20 % greater and perhaps more than twice as great on the 20 - year horizon and is comparable when compared over 100 years.

Coal is the most polluting fossil fuel, emitting around twice as much carbon dioxide as gas when used to generate power.

The vision that «clean coal» will play a significant role in the country's energy future was on display last night in Barack Obama's acceptance speech, and you can be sure it will be highlighted when John McCain speaks next week, as well.

Neither Hansen nor you can predict when coal use is likely to end, nor state what will «come around 2100» — as much as I respect Dr Hansen, I'd be as inclined to listen to Nostradamus for predictions of our situation 90 years hence.

This works for biofuels, as growing crops absorb atmospheric CO2 and convert it to sugars, oils, etc., leading to no net change in atmospheric CO2 when the fuel is burned — but it does not work for coal, oil or natural gas, however.

I know some here will decry that I am not talking about the issues because I do not try to obsfuscate with a discussion of the spot market price of coal vs long - term contracts, or use of coal in locations other than Kansas, or Al Gore's footprint, but the issue of Global Warming IS politics (non-ratification of Kyoto and negative flag - waving ads about politicians who oppose coal), it IS public relations («Clean Coal», cleanest coal - fired plants, surface mining and mountain - top reoval rather than strip mining, etc.), and it IS about misrepresentation (Peobody framing the debate as coal vs NG when it is really coal vs every other energy source), and it IS about greed (the coal industry doing everything it can to scuttle every other energy alternaticoal vs long - term contracts, or use of coal in locations other than Kansas, or Al Gore's footprint, but the issue of Global Warming IS politics (non-ratification of Kyoto and negative flag - waving ads about politicians who oppose coal), it IS public relations («Clean Coal», cleanest coal - fired plants, surface mining and mountain - top reoval rather than strip mining, etc.), and it IS about misrepresentation (Peobody framing the debate as coal vs NG when it is really coal vs every other energy source), and it IS about greed (the coal industry doing everything it can to scuttle every other energy alternaticoal in locations other than Kansas, or Al Gore's footprint, but the issue of Global Warming IS politics (non-ratification of Kyoto and negative flag - waving ads about politicians who oppose coal), it IS public relations («Clean Coal», cleanest coal - fired plants, surface mining and mountain - top reoval rather than strip mining, etc.), and it IS about misrepresentation (Peobody framing the debate as coal vs NG when it is really coal vs every other energy source), and it IS about greed (the coal industry doing everything it can to scuttle every other energy alternaticoal), it IS public relations («Clean Coal», cleanest coal - fired plants, surface mining and mountain - top reoval rather than strip mining, etc.), and it IS about misrepresentation (Peobody framing the debate as coal vs NG when it is really coal vs every other energy source), and it IS about greed (the coal industry doing everything it can to scuttle every other energy alternatiCoal», cleanest coal - fired plants, surface mining and mountain - top reoval rather than strip mining, etc.), and it IS about misrepresentation (Peobody framing the debate as coal vs NG when it is really coal vs every other energy source), and it IS about greed (the coal industry doing everything it can to scuttle every other energy alternaticoal - fired plants, surface mining and mountain - top reoval rather than strip mining, etc.), and it IS about misrepresentation (Peobody framing the debate as coal vs NG when it is really coal vs every other energy source), and it IS about greed (the coal industry doing everything it can to scuttle every other energy alternaticoal vs NG when it is really coal vs every other energy source), and it IS about greed (the coal industry doing everything it can to scuttle every other energy alternaticoal vs every other energy source), and it IS about greed (the coal industry doing everything it can to scuttle every other energy alternaticoal industry doing everything it can to scuttle every other energy alternative).

Why are people so willing to expand the use of coal as a source of energy with all of the negatives associated with coal when nuclear energy has so much more potential.

As was explored here before, one question is, «When coal flows between countries, who «owns» the CO2?»

When the 33 % efficiency of coal fired power plants (no it is not 40 % for these) is factored in, as well as the high rate of CO2 per BTU, the plugging in turns out to be not a good thing.

I've also seen abundant, and non-partisan, blinders deployed when advocates for various climate policies ignore the ongoing coal boom in Asia when excitedly pointing to a far smaller boom in wind and sun - powered technologies there and here as evidence that massive deployment of today's energy technologies can win the day.

Also, I'd like to point out (just so it's clear to members of the audience) that coal generates huge amounts of carbon dioxide when it's burned as fuel, as a CENTRAL part of the process.

What do you suppose will happen when we run out of fossil fuels, as we are likely to do in the near future (decades for oil and perhaps a century for coal)?

I was talking about exporting that technology to China so when they burn their dirty coal, it won't be as dirty, it will be clean.

As I've written repeatedly, it's tough to sustain a focus on long - term needs, like sustained research on the frontiers of photovoltaics and energy storage, when congressional politics is about building short - term coalitions by satisfying demands presented by influential players, from coal companies to unions.

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