Sentences with phrase «by coal country»

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This computing power has added a burden to energy systems around the globe, and in some countries, such as China, those systems still are powered by coal.

OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government says its new regulations to phase out power plants fired by coal and natural gas will cost more than $ 2.2 billion, but potentially save the country billions more in reduced health care costs.

China has already hit peak coal, but the fossil fuel does still account for 65 % of the country's power generated by source.

China's natural gas demand has been boosted by price cuts aimed at switching users from coal to the cleaner - burning fuel, according to one of the country's biggest gas distributors.

• In the hard - scrabble coal country of Pennsylvania, employment is hard to come by.

The country plans to stop using nuclear energy by 2022, but Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has resisted calls to set a deadline for ending the use of coal.

Meanwhile, Eastern Kentucky is coal country, and if Trump crushes Clinton by landslide proportions there, he could be on his way to exceeding expectations in the mining and mill towns of southern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, too.

Yet John Thompson, director of the fossil transition project at the Clean Air Task Force, said Kemper still could open the door for CO2 capture with countries like Poland and India with low - rank coals, by lowering costs for the second generation of plants.

If China's use of renewable and nuclear energy grows at a plausible rate, and the country captures some of its emissions from coal - burning power stations and keeps making improvements in energy efficiency, by 2050 its total emissions could end up 4 per cent lower than today, says Zhou.

The glut of cheap gas and tightening regulations on air pollutants have prompted the planned closure of 175 coal - fired power plants by 2016, representing 8.5 percent of all coal - fueled electricity capacity in the country.

The Greens want to shut down the country's dirtiest coal power plants, and support a climate - protection law to help Germany meet its plans to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions by 80 — 95 % from 1990 levels by 2050.

That said, whereas CO2 emissions from coal - fired power plants in the U.S. have declined, greenhouse gas emissions from oil sands have doubled since the turn of the century and look set to double again by the end of this decade — the primary source of emissions growth for the entire country of Canada.

What the country does have is large coal reserves, and methanol can be manufactured quite easily by gasifying coal.

«Gradual warming of the earth's atmosphere is caused by the developing countries as well as the developed countries,» says English professor Wang Xiansheng of Zhengzhou University, which is also facing rolling blackouts as a result of the current coal shortage.

China still draws 82 percent of energy from coal, but large dams are crucial to the country's climate change program, which aims to increase its proportion of electricity from renewable resources from the current 7.2 percent to 15 percent by 2020.

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?

China will widen its gap with the United States as the world's largest coal - producing country by the end of the decade, riding continued strong demand from its electric power and steel - making sectors, according to a new analysis from New York - based GBI Research.

Solar panels could produce electricity at the same price as coal - and natural gas - burning power plants by the end of this decade if countries direct resources at this rapidly advancing corner of the energy industry, according to the Paris - based International Energy Agency.

Shenhua Group, the country's largest coal producer and the second - largest in the world, for one, said in its latest financial report that the company's profit dropped by 13.7 percent in the first three quarters of 2014 compared with a year ago.

While country - specific effects would be varied, IMF projects that eliminating post-tax subsidies for the most - polluting energy fuels, such as coal and gasoline, could raise government revenue by $ 2.9 trillion, while also slashing premature deaths from pollution - related diseases by more than 50 percent.

The government agency said that the country's coal consumption also fell by 2.9 percent, or 118 million tons, in 2014 from the 2013 level, despite a growing overall energy demand.

During discussions earlier in the week at the Asia - Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting, China's National Energy Administration said the country will try to keep its total coal use up to 4.2 billion tons by 2020.

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.

The introduction of the carbon tax, along with Australia's target of generating 41,000 gigawatt hours of renewable energy a year by 2020, up from 21,000 in 2013, has helped increase renewable energy use and reduce the country's heavy reliance on coal, Dargaville says.

Strategies to meet the goal would vary by country and largely rely on advanced technology such as capturing the carbon dioxide spewed by coal - burning power plants; the Bush vision also foresees gasoline alternatives, nuclear power and an international clean technology fund to promote research into carbon - free energy sources.

This is helping the UK meet its commitment to be the world's first country to transition completely from coal generation by 2025, and to keep its coal resources unburnt in the ground.

Countries and regions report their CO2 emissions from fossil fuels by counting what they have used, such as the amount of oil, coal or gas they have burned.

Meanwhile, coal industry leaders say they are optimistic about coal's ability to deliver developing countries out of energy poverty and have noted that coal is expected to surpass oil as the world's leading energy source by 2015.

December 8, 2017 India's steel industry, like America's, is dominated by electric - based processes November 20, 2017 Link between growth in economic activity and electricity use is changing around the world November 16, 2017 Growth in global energy - related carbon dioxide emissions expected to slow November 8, 2017 EIA forecasts growth in world nuclear electricity capacity, led by non-OECD countries October 25, 2017 China leads the growth in projected global natural gas consumption October 10, 2017 Buildings energy consumption in India is expected to increase faster than in other regions October 4, 2017 Global gas - to - liquids growth is dominated by two projects in South Africa and Uzbekistan September 27, 2017 Chinese coal - fired electricity generation expected to flatten as mix shifts to renewables September 19, 2017 Beyond China and India, energy consumption in non-OECD Asia continues to grow September 14, 2017 EIA projects 28 % increase in world energy use by 2040

The breakup of the link between CO2 emissions and economic growth in developed countries has been brought about in part by the availability of inexpensive natural gas beginning to replace coal for electric power generation, Harvard University business and government professor Robert N. Stavins said.

Similarly, some have suggested that the US gas boom has depressed coal prices, potentially leading to increased imports and use by other countries.

In Pennsylvania's anthracite coal country, underground mine mapping became law by the late - 19th century, although the practice was not observed by all mining operations.

By comparison, the country's largest coal mines produce more than 100 million tons of coal each year.

A clear illustration of direct effects of fossil fuels on human health was provided by an inadvertent experiment in China during the 1950 — 1980 period of central planning, when free coal for winter heating was provided to North China but not to the rest of the country.

Red 40 is derived from coal tar (a carcinogen) and has been linked to behavioral issues in children and banned in other countries (or accompanied by a warning label).

A lot of real country singers appeared in Michael Apted's 1980 Loretta Lynn biopic «Coal Miner's Daughter,» but actress Sissy Spacek took the central role (and the Oscar) after being personally chosen by Lynn.

Once home to steel mills, coal mines, glassworks, and factories that produced chains, locks, leather, nails, cast iron and similar goods, the Black Country also inspired writers such as Elihu Berrit, whose Walks in the Black Country and Its Green Border - land begins: «The Black Country, black by day and red by night... is a section of Titanic industry, kept in murky perspiration by a sturdy set of Tubal Cains and Vulcans, week in week out, and often...

Besides the possibility of our applying a similar process to the bituminous coal and tars made therefrom, in this country, the research on hydrogenation has been extended by one of the great oil companies of the United States which at great expense has learned how the method can be so modified as to apply to petroleum hydrocarbons.

The young Goya's brightly coloured tapestry designs rejoice in (apparently) simple evocations of seasonal fun and festivals, like this portrayal of a country doctor warming his hands over a dish of hot coals while his two students huddle by him in the bleak midwinter.

While a fraction of the coal - power stations that would be saved by switching to biomass will be sited on suitable geology for CO2 sequestration, the great majority are not, meaning that in every quite - developed country HP pipelines would be needed that would sum to many thousands of miles.

• Leads global sector public financing towards cleaner energy by calling for the end of U.S. government support for public financing of new coal - fired powers plants overseas, except for the most efficient coal technology available in the world's poorest countries, or facilities deploying carbon capture and sequestration technologies; and

The same $ 1 million invested in the service sector produces 220 jobs and only increases the country's energy bill by 350 tons of coal equivalent.

And by placing their short sighted greed, ignorance, and stupidity first, the unholy polluting coalition of oil producers and coal burners has told the world that they don't care who else they hurt by continuing their dirty addiction, killing reefs and drowning islands and coasts, and imperiling millions in poor countries.

But we were opposed by the world richest and most powerful countries, a coalition of oil producers and coal burners.

Wheat supplies are expected to be affected - Australia is the fourth - largest wheat exporter - and the country is also the largest exporter of coking coal, production of which is also being affected by the floods.

A single, large coal plant, if built with the best - available technology, can reduce emissions by the annual equivalent of taking a million cars off the road compared to the subcritical coal - plant technology still prevalent in most countries.

President Obama was right when he campaigned on the idea that the country has to abandon its «shock to trance» approach to energy policy and investment if it ever hopes to cut the addiction to oil pointed out by his predecessor, not to mention the persistent allure of coal («clean» or otherwise).

According to data from the DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratories recently cited by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, the gross offshore wind energy resources of the mid-Atlantic region alone exceed the total output of all the coal - fired power plants in the country.

By the time third world countries actually build substantial additional electricity generation, the world could be nearing the limits of coal supply, especially if you factor in projected population growth and increased consumption.

China's plan to build millions of electric vehicles will have little impact on the country's carbon dioxide emissions, a new analysis concludes, because so much of the country's electricity is produced by burning coal.