Sentences with phrase «by burning coal»

But that would still be only a fraction of the electricity produced by burning coal.

See, electric relies on energy generated by burning coal and nuclear energy in most parts of the world.

The same goes for the air pollution caused by burning coal.

Most energy is produced around the world by burning coal in big power stations.

When we release energy by burning coal, we release sunlight energy stored by the plants millions of years ago.

Every molecule of methane in the air has 25 times the effect on temperature rise compared to a molecule of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by burning coal, oil or gas.

And the industrial countries became wealthy largely by burning the coal and oil that produced most of the heat - trapping carbon dioxide that is now in the air.

Large - scale alternatives, such as wind, hydro and nuclear, can generate all the energy at present delivered by burning coal.

Imagine a utility that generates 100 % of the electricity it sells by burning coal.

The carbon dioxide emitted by burning coal, natural gas, and oil has a unique chemical «fingerprint» — and the additional CO2 in the atmosphere bears that signature.

The amount of electricity generated by burning coal is shrinking and being replaced by renewables and natural gas.

We spend around a billion per day to deal with the health and environmental damage caused by burning coal.

According to the National Research Council report, in 2005 the total annual external damages from sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulate matter created by burning coal at 406 coal - fired power plants (which produce 95 percent of the nation's coal - generated electricity), were about $ 62 billion.

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.

Think about energy: Compare dealing with the few big companies per country producing electricity by burning coal or oil, for example, with the more than 570 million global farms, growing pretty much every possible food using countless approaches in myriad locales.

1bbb: Coal ashes and cinders contain so much uranium and thorium that more energy goes into coal cinders and ash in the form of uranium and thorium than you get by burning the coal.

Blaming damage caused by burning coal on the renewable energy industry is classic Orwellian political reasoning by a political party devoted to the dying coal industry.

He seems to re-enact the scene of Peter's failure by burning coals on the fire.

So killing people through airpolution by burning coal is better..

Some dyes are created by burning coal tar and others are derived from petroleum byproducts like tartrazine and erythrosine.

Human beings have overpopulated the Earth far beyond its natural carrying capacity, and is essentially sustained by burning coal, oil, gas and uranium.

A caption below a photo of what looks like a smokestack added: «Humans have altered Earth's climate by burning coal and other fossil fuels that release carbon dioxide,» according to an image of the panel provided by the Perot Museum and by the panel's designer.

But wishing nuclear away could be unwise, and most of China's massive — and growing — energy needs are still met by burning coal.

A new study reveals dangerous radioactivity in coal ash, the toxic waste generated by burning coal for electricity.

In the case of fossil fuelled power stations this is the units of thermal energy provided by burning coal, oil or gas in order to generate 1 kWh of electricity.

Large numbers of people have been misled into believing that economic growth can only be achieved by burning coal, gas and oil.

Instead of opting to run the facility with renewable energy, Facebook plans on using electricity made by burning coal.

The slight downward trend in temperature from about 1945 until about 1975 is due to the increase in Sulfate Aerosols (SO4), largely produced by burning coal that contains sulfur.

But every year a new group of at least 34,000 people die and hundreds of thousands of other people get sick from pollution caused by burning coal in America.

... In the late 1980s, there was a sense of the new about the greenhouse effect, even though scientists had been positing since the 1890s that heat - trapping gases, particularly carbon dioxide released by burning coal and other focal fuels could raise global temperatures.

We now have the technology to capture and store most of the carbon dioxide generated by burning coal.

CO2 really is a greenhouse gas and other things being equal, adding the gas to the atmosphere by burning coal, oil, and natural gas will modestly increase the surface temperature of the earth.

Renewable energy sources, such as the sun and wind, advances in technology to capture and store the carbon created by burning coal, and even the harvesting of uranium's energy will all likely be required.

One grand, overarching myth not discussed by Plumer is that the kind of solar technology produced by companies like Solyndra can play a substantial role in blunting the buildup of greenhouse gases driven largely by burning coal and oil.

Warming caused by burning coal in a power plant can be felt in the atmosphere within 95 days — the time it takes for the emissions released from the plant to trap enough heat to exceed the amount generated from the plant itself, according to the study.

And people still burn wood for light and heat — but we also get energy by burning coal, gas, and oil and from hydroelectric, nuclear, and solar sources.

As a result, the business - as - usual burning of coal for the production of electricity without CO2 capture and sequestration is going to come to a halt, and thanks to the first law of thermodynamics (conservation of energy) CCS is going to add a very considerable cost to generating electricity by burning coal.

Biogas from the wastewater treatment plant doesn't supply all of the Northgate factory's steam needs, but supplements the steam produced by burning coal.

A tale of two solar press releases A new startup at MIT is working hard to create a kind of printable solar panel that could produce electricity that is cost - competitive with the electricity produced by burning coal.

FACT: Seventy percent of our electricity is produced by burning coal and other fossil fuels, sources linked to global warming.

BACK in 1896, the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius realised that by burning coal we were adding carbon dioxide to the air, and that this would warm the Earth.

Clean power, already flowing, should be a godsend to a nation that still generates most of its electricity by burning coal.

Not only does Q fail to consider the carbon to be released by burning coal but he also totally ignores the tar sands, oil shales, and heavy oils that are being targeted to supplement remaining oil supplies.