Sentences with phrase «burn tonnes»

Cost to burn a tonne of coal for most Australian coal plants before July 1st: About $ 3 Minimum cost to burn a tonne of coal in Australia after July 1st: About $ 70

Not exact matches

In Beijing alone, about 2 million tonnes of leaves and other plant waste are burned every year.

When it is burned, the coal will produce 128 million tonnes of carbon per year, says the ACF.

Underground burning could unlock the power of hundreds of billions, perhaps trillions, of tonnes of otherwise inaccessible coal.

Scientists have calculated that the burning of peatland rainforest to free up land for plantations churns out more than 1,500 tonnes of carbon per hectare.

In comparison, the burning of fossil fuels produced about 8.7 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide globally last year.

A standard kiln holds about six cubic metres of stacked wood, and produces about half a tonne of charcoal in a 48 - hour burn cycle.

And if all the known reserves of coal, oil and gas are burnt, the figure will eventually rise to more than 4 trillion tonnes.

Instead of Australia dumping millions of tonnes of sludge onto their Great Barrier Reef so they can export more coal to be burned (8 February, p 7), why don't they send it to an island country that needs it because of rising sea levels caused by climate change, such as Tuvalu in Polynesia?

Human activities are emitting around 10.5 billion tonnes of carbon annually and rising, mostly as a result of burning fossil fuels.

Cumulative emissions of CO2 since 1870 are set to reach 2015 billion tonnes in 2013 — with 70 per cent caused by burning fossil fuels and 30 per cent from deforestation and other land - use changes.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels are set to rise again in 2013, reaching a record high of 36 billion tonnes — according to new figures from the Global Carbon Project, co-led by researchers from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia.

Later, the festival organisers announced that 300 trees had been planted outside the city to soak up the estimated 68 tonnes of greenhouse gases released by the stunt: dump, burn and offset.

In the Croatian town of Osijek, 1000 tonnes of chemicals have been abandoned in a burnt - out detergents and cosmetics factory.

Pearce proposes that a fair carbon tax — to take account of the environmental costs of burning fossil fuels — would be between $ 10 and $ 20 per tonne of carbon.

Soot from oil - burning ships is dumping about 1000 tonnes of soluble iron per year across 6 million square kilometres of ocean, new research has revealed.

We burn too much of it, producing billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide that threatens to wreck our planet's climate for generations to come.

It's must be truly frustrating to spend ones entire career determining what will happen if the world burns 20 or 30 billion tonnes of coal per year when the economic evidence points to the world never burning more then 7 or 8 billion tonnes per year.

Emissions of CO2 by human activities, including fossil fuel burning, cement production, and gas flaring, amount to about 27 billion tonnes per year (30 billion tons)-LSB-(Marland, et al., 2006)-- The reference gives the amount of released carbon (C), rather than CO2, through 2003.].

Burning that less carbon - intensive fuel could prevent the emission of 0.5 to one billion tonnes of greenhouse gas, according to one study.

Specifically, to reach that probability level, we can burn a total of about one trillion metric tonnes of carbon.

The IPCC report estimated that we've already used 515 billion tonnes of the carbon budget as of 2011 by burning fossil fuels for energy as well as by clearing forests for farming and myriad other uses.

When weight gain occurs even on a low amount of calories there is usually something going on hormonally beyond the «excess» cardio: I've also gained a tonne of weight despite running 90 - 100mpw plus other activites on an average 2500 - 3000 calories (despite burning over 2000 per day through exercise) so I do empathise with that problem!

I recommend checking out Adam Steer's «Bodyweight Burn» — He has tonnes of video tutorials.

Every day, we receive 2,000 tonnes of coal and we burn 2,000 tonnes of coal.

Latest cash will fund about a year of cash - burn, but the upgrade of 2.6 million tonnes to 2P status offers significant upside (based on an unchanged $ 40 in - the - ground tungsten valuation).

You should try it, when I have savings they burn a hole in my pocket, but if you don't think about it, you will save tonnes!

A tonne of fossil carbon is added to the active carbon cycle each time about 1.67 tonnes of coal are burned.

In fact, the world will burn around 1.2 billion more tonnes of coal per year by 2017 compared to today — equivalent to the current coal consumption of Russia and the United States combined.

Coal — about 8 billion tonnes per annum, nearly half of which is burnt by China and 1 billion tonnes by the USA.

(The difference between CO2 and carbon is a constant source of confusion in many discussions about global warming — one tonne of carbon burnt equals 3.67 tonnes of CO2).

In Australia in 2017 our Liberal coalition government can not see past the profits that they believe can be made by digging up and burning or exporting millions of tonnes of this killer commodity.

The fossil fuel - burning stations built worldwide in 2012 alone will produce 19 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide over their lifetimes.

British Columbia inaugurated its carbon tax on July 1, 2008 at a rate of $ 10 (Canadian) per metric ton («tonne») of carbon dioxide released from coal, oil and natural gas burned in the province.

We know what happens when billions of tonnes of biomass gets dumped somewhere it can't burn and sediment can be deposited on it.

But marine pollution analysts in Germany and Brussels said that such a large ship would probably burn at least 150 tonnes of fuel a day, and emit more sulphur than several million cars, more NO2 gas than all the traffic passing through a medium - sized town and more particulate emissions than thousands of London buses.

The fuel cell operates much more efficiently than a conventional gas - burning turbine, meaning it emits between 3,400 and 5,000 tonnes less CO2 per year.

The 582 megawatt facility is expected to burn through around 4 million tonnes of low - grade lignite coal a year, all mined from the hills just behind the plant.

Since 1750, we have emitted about 580 billion tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels, cutting down forests and making cement.

Peter Scott, CEO, at Burn said, «The programme has already supplied over 200,000 clean cooking stoves, impacting the lives of over one million people in Kenya and generating saving of more than 1.4 million tonnes of CO2 emissions.

> The burning of fossil fuels produces around 21.3 billion tonnes (21.3 gigatonnes) of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year, but it is estimated that natural processes can only absorb about half of that amount, so there is a net increase of 10.65 billion tonnes of atmospheric carbon dioxide per year (one tonne of atmospheric carbon is equivalent to 44/12 or 3.7 tonnes of carbon dioxide).

Well, India has a lot of coal to burn — «Coal production in the country during the year 2010 - 11 was 533 million tonnes (MTs) as compared to 532 MTs during 2009 - 10, registering a growth of 0.12 %.

As an example in China, replacement of residential coal burning by large boiler houses providing district heating is among the abatement options providing the largest net benefit per tonne of CO2 reduction, when the health benefits from improved ambient air conditions are accounted for (Mestl et al., 2005).

The report calculates that the world's currently indicated fossil fuel reserves equate to 2,860 bn tonnes of carbon dioxide, but that just 31 % could be burned for an 80 % chance of keeping below a 2C temperature rise.

To have a two thirds chance of staying below two degrees, total emissions from the beginning of the industrial revolution to the time we stop burning carbon would need to stay below 3,670 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide, one paper in Nature Geoscience notes.

They burned 1.1 million tonnes of firewood in 2016, which provided 5.34 TWh of direct heat — and that might have affected the climate more than you might think.

On a national scale, the pair calculate that fires in the US release about 290 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide each year — about 4 — 6 % of the amount that the country emits by fossil fuel burning.

Hmm... let's see... that the approximate 1.5 trillion tonnes of human CO2 emissions (since the industrial age began) has not given Earth an accelerating fever that is causing the planet to burn - that's an unavoidable, rational and informed assessment of climate reality.

The cost of transporting a 300 tonnes of water with every thousand tonnes of (wet) coal the 250 km from the mine to the power station (in the case of coal mined at Leigh Creek and burned at Port Augusta) must be very high, but I would think that it would be insignificant compared to the energy loss resulting from burning wet coal.

If we can get another megawatt - hour of electricity out of every tonne of coal we burn, that means we need burn less coal to get the same amount of electricity.