Sentences with phrase «burned black coal»

Victoria had the highest emissions because it relied on particularly polluting brown coal, while NSW and Queensland burned black coal.

Not exact matches

In Black Mesa, Arizona, the proposal to construct six large, coal - burning electric plants and three strip mines meant that the health risks of air and water pollution would be suffered by a predominantly native American population, but the power generated would be distributed to distant urban areas.

This was because the soot in the atmosphere from the burning of coal darkened the tree trunks where the moths would rest, rendering the white moths easy prey while the black moths remained well camouflaged.

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.

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.

Burning coal produces more than 100 million metric tons of coal ash per yearthe gray or black sooty aftermath of our fossil fuel habit.

The more coal and oil burned, the more black spheres formed, making such soot the perfect record of a swelling fossil - fuel pyromania.

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.

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.

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.

Black smoke and sulphur dioxide were produced mainly by burning fossil fuels (including coal, oil, diesel, petrol).

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).

The New York based gallery Ameringer McEnery Yohe has announced a forthcoming solo exhibition by the Brooklyn based artist Brian Alfred which will present recent works under the title It Takes A Million Years To Become Diamonds So Let's All Just Burn Like Coal Until The Sky Is Black.

His works, including the new pieces in It Takes a Million Years To Become Diamonds So Let's All Just Burn Like Coal Until The Sky Is Black solo exhibition, are often inspired by technology, how it alters our perceptions of the world and how we process information.

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.

The work is made from coal and oak charred black, through carefully controlled burning.

Sea salt comes from sea spray over the oceans, dust from dry desert areas, black carbon from burning of forests and fossil fuels, sulphates derive from ocean plankton and burning coal, nitrates derive from fertiliser use, car exhausts and lightning, and secondary organics come from the stew of volatile organic compounds from industrial and natural sources alike.

And there's lots of coal in Turkey so that's what we used to burn, and talk about thermal inversion and ominous black skies!!

Burning agricultural waste, or burning coal inefficiently, or burning kerosene for lighting — any fossil fuel or biofuel burned incompletely is going to produce some amount of black Burning agricultural waste, or burning coal inefficiently, or burning kerosene for lighting — any fossil fuel or biofuel burned incompletely is going to produce some amount of black burning coal inefficiently, or burning kerosene for lighting — any fossil fuel or biofuel burned incompletely is going to produce some amount of black burning kerosene for lighting — any fossil fuel or biofuel burned incompletely is going to produce some amount of black carbon.

I strongly believe that the increased summer melts of Arctic ice are in part a result of black carbon from Asia coal burning landing on the ice and reducing its albedo (and greatly accelerating melt rates).

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Unlike CO2, which remains in the atmosphere for a very long span of time, black carbon is something we could tackle on a short timescale, by mandating things like filters on diesel engines and the cleaner burning of coal and biomass.

Despite a year of major coal - related developments, burning the black stuff remains the biggest barrier to meeting international climate goals.

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

But in power plants, you don't get the black carbon and polycyclic hydrocarbons that you get when you burn coal in a residential heating stove, because the temperatures are much higher and you have pretty much complete combustion.

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.

Black carbon is a by - product of burning biomass, coal, diesel and gas.

Smoke from coal and wood burning is a major contributor to black carbon and PM2.5 air pollution in Mongolia, and has made the capital, Ulaanbaatar, one of the most polluted cities in the world.

Improving domestic heating that uses solid fuel burning (primarily wood and coal) in both developed and developing countries is another way to reduce black carbon.

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

However, in India and China a lot of coal and biomass is burned in domestic settings where inefficient low - temperature combustion and a lack of pollution controls mean that the mix of emissions is much more complicated — carbon dioxide, of course, but also large amounts of carbon monoxide, black carbon and sulphates.