Sentences with phrase «black coal fired»

Absent loopholes $ 10 per tCO2 or 1,000 c per tonne or 1c per kg should add about 2.5 c per litre to petrol and 1c per kilowatt hour to conventional black coal fired electricity, hardly financially ruinous.

Starting 1/7/11 the price of black coal fired electricity will go up 1c per kilowatt hour.

Not exact matches

Rising awareness about black carbon Half of the world's population — roughly 3 billion people — cook their food and heat their homes by burning coal and biomass material like wood and animal dung, over open fires or rudimentary stoves, according to U.S. EPA.

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.

Volcanic SCPs are different — much lighter in color and easy to distinguish from the dark black spheres formed by high - temperature fossil - fuel burning in coal - fired power plants and vehicles.

Venetian trader and explorer Marco Polo said that one of the most surprising sights during his travels through Asia in the 13th century was the Chinese practice of burning a strange, black rock for heat — and the mountains along the Silk Road that smoldered due to underground coal fires, like the ones burning throughout the country today.

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.

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.

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.

Here are people, landscapes, and odd little moments in and around Eggleston's hometown of Memphis — an anonymous woman in a loudly patterned dress and cat's eye glasses sitting, left leg slightly raised, on an equally loud outdoor sofa; a coal - fired barbecue shooting up flames, framed by a shiny silver tricycle, the curves of a gleaming black car fender, and someone's torso; a tiny, gray - haired lady in a faded, flowered housecoat, standing expectant, and dwarfed in the huge dark doorway of a mint - green room whose only visible furniture is a shaded lamp on an end table.

Black Mesa, AZ is a hot spot for transitioning out of extreme energy in the form of coal fired power plants and into clean, renewable sources of energy and jobs.

Black soot is generated from industrial pollution, traffic, outdoor fires, and household burning of coal and biomass fuels.

TRUenergy also owns the Mount Piper and Wallerawang black coal - fired generators in NSW; gas - fired generation at Tallawarra in NSW, at Hallett in South Australia, and Newport and Jeeralang in Victoria.

I have a totally speculative pet hypothesis: this was the early days of the industrial revolution and much more black soot was being produced by coal fires in the cities.

The premature shut down of coal fired electric power plants will raise our risk of regional electric black - out during a polar vortex type of winter storm.

Once coal mining and industrialisation were truly underway in the UK, contemporary paintings of industrialised areas had a hellish aspect imparted by the lowering black cloudscapes lit from underneath by the fires of industrial processes.

My guess is that the actual outcome would involve keeping some brown coal stations, with drying technology that reduces emissions to a level comparable with black coal, and some expansion of gas - fired power stations, offset by a combination of domestic offset measures and purchases of international offsets.

The orange columns are coal - fired power; yellow, gas - fired; blue, wind; and black is power imported from the eastern states by the interconnectors.

Black & Veatch, Plum Point Power Station, Osceola • AK 2008 — 2009 Electrical Commissioning Engineer Performed complete electrical startup initiations for 1000 Megawatt coal fired power station that included commissioning of plant auxiliary electrical system, medium and low voltage switchgear, and motor control centers and protective relaying and control for switchgear.

Black - stained wooden floorboards and a hefty cast iron fireplace perfectly balance a nephrite green base, meaning the orange tones of the bronze - coloured elements glow like embers in a coal fire.