Sentences with phrase «burning coal fields»

Other theories suggest runaway global warming was involved, due either to release of sea - floor methane clathrates, or even burning coal fields.

Not exact matches

Maxwell Ball, manager for clean coal technologies at SaskPower in Regina, which owns the plant, says that the company was surprised to learn that it would be cheaper in the long term to keep burning coal at Boundary Dam and sell the carbon dioxide to oil companies to boost production in the oil field than to build a new natural - gas plant.

Efforts to use biomass rather than burning it in the fields could help ease China's energy needs, displacing coal and cutting air pollution

But despite some commercial demonstrations of such carbon sequestration technology, largely to help recover more oil from depleted fields, none have approached anywhere near the scale necessary to significantly impact the 9.3 billion metric tons of CO2 — and rising — emitted every year from burning coal.

They eventually linked the mysterious pollution to a nearby natural - gas field, and their investigation has now produced the first hard evidence that the cleanest - burning fossil fuel might not be much better than coal when it comes to climate change.

Or, just don't burn your fire wood completely, but gasify it and leave some char coal for use in the fields.

The rest is caused by coal burning, the burning of firewood and cow dung cakes for fuel and cooking, and crop fields after harvest.

Staring at the noontime sun in a cloudless sky through a thick fog of coal smoke that every building was burning for heat in Beijing, green wiggly things coming out of the water tap in Shanghi, fields where nothing could be grown due to heavy metal sludge in Poland, and let's not forget the Marxist environmental masterpiece of Chernobyl.