Sentences with phrase «cleaner coal burning»

[Response: And also factor in that reduction in hurricane damage is not the only, or even the major, benefit of GHG control, and perhaps also the fact that it's not entirely clear that a smart implementation of Kyoto would actually «cost» anything, given ancillary benefits of energy efficiency and health benefits from reduced or cleaner coal burning.

Not exact matches

Most of it will come from mines in Wyoming and Montana that find themselves without domestic customers since the shale gas revolution, combined with emissions control regulation, drove utilities in the U.S. to shut down coal - fired plants and fire up cleaner - burning natural gas plants.

Cleaner burning natural gas has been replacing aging coal power plants in droves over the past several years thanks to both economics and environmental reasons.

Its members have committed to phasing out coal - burning power plants, supporting clean energy and encouraging carbon capture technology.

If SolarCity succeeds, clean power will replace dirty energy, spelling the end of the coal - and natural - gas - burning power plants.

But he added that there have been «terrific» innovations in making burning coal cleaner, and more could come.

A majority of economists, business and energy analysts instead agree that coal's demise is due to a triple whammy: competition from much cheaper and cleaner - burning natural gas, proliferated by fracking technology; growth in the solar and wind energy production; and tougher environmental regulations.

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.

The plan contains measures that will help Canada hit its obligations under the Paris Agreement, such as introducing carbon pricing, phasing out coal - burning power stations and boosting support for clean - energy technologies.

LNG will play its part in this dynamic, offering a cleaner energy solution to the coal Japan is burning to replace its broken nuclear capacity and China is using to fuel its rapid acceleration through a phase of industrialization.

Fracking and natural gas are better choices for power generation then burning coal and oil and until we have cleaner sources of energy will do.

The installation at the site of the former Town of Ulster landfill is expected to generate 2,360 MWh of clean electricity each year, roughly equivalent to the electricity generated by burning 2 million pounds of coal or 4,000 barrels of oil.

Cuomo has pushed in recent years to adopt new efforts aimed at reducing emissions and shifting the state toward the majority use of clean and renewable power in the coming years, including an effort to close coal - burning power plants by 2020, promoting offshore wind projects and developing a clean energy standard to have the state on 50 percent renewable energy by 2030.

In a major blow to the government's plans to develop «clean» coal technology (where fossil fuels are burnt and the emissions stored underground), the company have postponed the project.

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.

Coal may get cleaner as pollution controls minimize the emissions that cause acid rain and smog as well as cut the greenhouse gases changing the climate, but there are still plenty of leftovers from coal burning: toxic ash, mercury and other issCoal may get cleaner as pollution controls minimize the emissions that cause acid rain and smog as well as cut the greenhouse gases changing the climate, but there are still plenty of leftovers from coal burning: toxic ash, mercury and other isscoal burning: toxic ash, mercury and other issues.

The Amsterdam - based InterAcademy Council — a group that represents 150 national scientific and engineering academies — released a report this week detailing how countries can shift from burning coal and other greenhouse - gas emitting fuels to cleaner energy while also introducing modern forms of energy to the billions worldwide who rely on charcoal, firewood or even dung as their fuel.

It is much cleaner to burn natural gas than to burn crude oil or coal.

At the same time, they have been holding out the prospect of «clean coal» — in which carbon is captured and stored as coal is burned.

Natural gas, which now supplies 25 percent of the nation's electricity, is the cleanest - burning fossil fuel, producing about half as much carbon per watt of power as coal.

Tens of thousands of gas wells are expected to be drilled in the coming decade, according to energy industry and U.S. government estimates, and much of that gas will be delivered to electric utilities as a cleaner substitute for burning coal.

For power plants, burning natural gas is cleaner than coal and dirtier than wind, solar and hydropower.

Although natural gas generates less greenhouse gas than coal when burned, when its total life - cycle emissions associated with extraction and distribution are factored in, it does not seem much cleaner than coal

As long as mountaintop removal mining continues coal can not be clean, even if the pollution from burning it can be minimized

And there's little doubt that it's needed, according to a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: developing countries like China and India will burn their coal reserves to power industry and alleviate poverty so developing cleaner ways to use it will be a global imperative.

The Chinese government shut down more than 2,000 highly polluting factories in Linfen and forced those that remained to install cleaner - burning coal - fired devices.

When burned, natural gas emits roughly half the carbon dioxide of coal, making it a promising «bridge fuel» until cleaner renewable energy sources come online.

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

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

Natural gas is by far the cleanest - burning fossil fuel, producing about half as much carbon dioxide as the energy - equivalent amount of coal.

«Due to advanced technology used at U.S. - based coal burning power plants, mandated by the Clean Air Act and the Environmental Protection Agency, most of these nanoparticles and other tiny particles are removed before the final emission of the plant's exhaust gases,» Hochella said.

Cleaner coal - burning technologies would reduce emissions not only of greenhouse gases but also of soot and other by - products that cause local and regional pollution — and they could prove to be easier or less expensive to implement.

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.

PurGen would transform raw coal into cleaner - burning hydrogen and fire its generators with that instead, in a process that would also yield valuable by - products.

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.

The good news: the U.S. is making a tectonic shift from burning coal to produce the majority of its electricity to using cleaner natural gas.

The Clean Power Plan, the Obama administration's most sweeping climate policy aiming to cut emissions from power plants that burn fossil fuels, is another factor in the decline of the coal industry.

David Slater told electricity industry executives that the cleanest option for burning coal and oil is a system called integrated gasification and combined cycle.

But fossil fuel advocates note that DOE support has been critical to industry advances, including developing the technology behind fracking, offshore drilling, and cleaner - burning coal and natural gas power plants.

«The politics is changing,» she added, noting growing enthusiasm for nuclear power as the clean alternative to coal - burning plants.

The relatively low growth is linked to both the adoption of more fuel - efficient vehicles and the replacement of coal - powered electricity with renewable energy sources and relatively cleaner - burning natural gas.

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The Canadian government has awarded C$ 285m (# 165m) to a flagship «clean coal» gasification project that promises to burn coal without extracting it from the ground.

In coming months, the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME), which has 27 members representing medical doctors in EU countries, will be raising awareness of the risks of coal burning as part of its work underlining the importance of cleaner air.

James is right in pointing out that we still need to burn fossil fuel (Coal, Petrol, etc.) to generate electricity which charges the so called clean EV cars.

The stark reality is that there is literally no such thing as clean coal electricity in the United States today — not one American home today is powered by a coal - burning plant that captures and stores its carbon pollution.

A coal burning plant lasts around 40 years - industry needs to know now if it is to invest in clean coal technolgy for a new plant or retrofit.

But coal is not «cheap» for the Appalachian communities destroyed by mountaintop removal (see appvoices.org), nor for the miners killed or sickened because worker safety would be too costly for mine owners, nor for the areas made permanently dead from the mining practices, nor for the children poisoned by the toxic fumes of even the cleanest - burning coal plants, not to mention the entire planet, every species, every community, every neighborhood being damaged and degraded by the global warming coal burning causes.

The devastation caused by mountaintop removal in combination with the millions of tons of pollutants, including greenhouse gases, released by burning coal clearly demonstrates that there is no such thing as clean coal.

And if that fugitive gas is captured, natural gas remains a far, far cleaner - burning option than coal or oil.