Sentences with phrase «coal and natural gas still»

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Kansas is still largely dependent on coal, however, and is one of the country's top hubs for crude oil and natural gas production.

Foley said that coal will still likely be the majority power source in 25 years in developing economies like China and India, as they have large domestic coal supplies and less domestic competition from natural gas.

Much of this energy still comes from the burning of fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas, which release carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere and contribute to extreme weather patterns that imperil everyone on earth — especially our food producers.

Emissions released from burning them still would be small compared with those from burning coal and natural gas

Coal, oil and natural gas still account for 67 percent of energy use in the United States, a figure that sums up the nation's conflicted stance on renewable energy.

Big changes will be necessary whatever happens, as oil and natural gas supplies dwindle, though coal is still available in huge quantities.

Natural gas might still have an advantage over coal when burned to create electricity, because gas - fired power plants tend to be newer and far more efficient than older facilities that provide the bulk of the country's coal - fired generation.

The infant solar power companies, however, must gain their foothold by taking business away from the incumbent and politically powerful coal, natural gas and nuclear power providers, at a time when overall growth in U.S. electricity demand is still slowed by an underperforming economy.

While oil and natural gas operations may have taken something of a downturn in the state over the last five years, Wyoming is still, incontestably, coal country.

We still see natural gas as an important bridge fuel and encourage converting coal plants to natural gas, but we also support full disclosure of fracking chemicals and strong environmental safeguards during production.

A new buzz phrase in the push to limit greenhouse gas emissions is «unburnable carbon» — an effort to define and then wall off the portion of the world's still - vast reserves of coal, oil or natural gas that might, if combusted, cause unacceptably costly or dangerous climate change.

Therefore, if switching to natural gas from coal reduces the amount of CO2 you emit, you can tolerate quite a large amount of leakage and still come out ahead, because the warming caused by the leakage will go away quickly once you eventually stop using natural gas (and other fossil fuels), whereas the warming you would get from all the extra CO2 you'd pump out if you stuck with coal would stay around forever.

Those who study energy patterns say we are in a gradual transition from oil and coal to natural gas, a fuel that emits far less carbon but still contributes to global warming.

And though technology is improving our ability to reduce emissions from coal usage, natural gas is still a much cleaner source»

With such a level playing field that gets rid of everything but coal and natural gas, good thing we still have plenty.

While oil and natural gas operations may have taken something of a downturn in the state over the last five years, Wyoming is still, incontestably, coal country.

Still, all regions of the nation can take advantage of cleaner electric power, like nuclear, waste - to - energy, coal with carbon capture and sequestration, and natural gas.

The average U.S. price of coal and natural gas power is still cheaper than renewables at $ 65 a megawatt - hour, compared with wind at $ 80 and photovoltaic solar — generating electricity from sunlight — at $ 107.

A study surveying «leaky valves and pipes in the rapidly growing natural gas industry» observed 50 % more methane leakage than expected, but the extra atmospheric contribution still causes less global warming than coal.

Outspokenly; nonrenewable energy sources; which include oil, coal, natural gas, and uranium - are the primary world's energy supplier today and will still remain the major source of world's energy for a foreseeable future.

There will still be the slag problem, so ultra-supercritical plants are not as good as natural gas combined cycle, but, as, mentioned earlier, coal will be needed for base load, something wind and solar can't provide.

They will still need to get power from non-renewable sources like coal and natural gas power plants when the renewable energy isn't working or is working at greatly reduced levels.

For example, we can substitute some residential coal burning and industrial boiler for electricity, or fuel - engine vehicles for electric vehicles; save natural gas for residential use; and for those who still have to burn coal, provide them with high quality coal.»

Though cleaner than coal, natural gas still generates unacceptably large amounts of carbon pollution, especially when the leakage of natural gas from pipelines and other infrastructure is considered.

Offshore wind is still one of the more expensive electricity generating technologies, but onshore wind is often highly competitive with coal, natural gas, and nuclear power in areas with strong wind resources.

Comparatively, fossil fuels are still dramatically cheaper than solar - based energies, with photovoltaic energy costing anything from 35 - to - 50 cents per kilowatt - hour, compared with coal and natural gas at 5 - to - 6 cents per kilowatt - hour.

They brought stories of campaigns to get local food on campuses, to shut down coal plants and stop natural gas fracking, and they educated themselves with speeches, documentaries, and stories from the front lines of the dirty energy battle — places like the Gulf coast, which is still struggling from the aftermath of the oil spill.

If those in developed nations switched to nuclear power, then low cost, low sulfur coal and natural gas would still be available for the underdeveloped nations.

And here's the kicker: even if humanity is reckless and immoral enough to blow past the 2 °C roadblock and cook the planet by 3 °C or 4 °C, there are still huge amounts of known oil, coal and natural gas resources that will have to stay in the grouAnd here's the kicker: even if humanity is reckless and immoral enough to blow past the 2 °C roadblock and cook the planet by 3 °C or 4 °C, there are still huge amounts of known oil, coal and natural gas resources that will have to stay in the grouand immoral enough to blow past the 2 °C roadblock and cook the planet by 3 °C or 4 °C, there are still huge amounts of known oil, coal and natural gas resources that will have to stay in the grouand cook the planet by 3 °C or 4 °C, there are still huge amounts of known oil, coal and natural gas resources that will have to stay in the grouand natural gas resources that will have to stay in the ground.

[SEPP Comment: Two issues: will the natural gas prices remain low and will EPA still force closing of coal plants?]

That report predicted that without new carbon regulations, the U.S. would still have an electricity system in 2040 based largely on coal and natural gas:

The state's largest electric utilities are proposing a steadily increasing dependence on natural gas, which, while cleaner than coal, is still a fossil fuel — and not the cheapest option.

Just a few years ago, economists and environmentalists still pictured a world shifting steadily from «dirty» coal - fired power plants to «cleaner» natural - gas turbines.

«In 2014, the global consumption of coal, oil and natural gas reached 8.2 billion tons, 33.6 billion barrels and 3.5 trillion cubic meters respectively, which can sustain [the world] for 110, 53 and 54 years if the current exploration intensity still maintains,» Liu said.

The IEA's most recent World Energy Outlook finds that while renewables and natural gas generation will grow rapidly, coal is still projected to be the dominant source of electricity through 2035.

The exciting thing is that most of that growth happened when wind power was still more expensive than coal and natural gas without subsidies, but we're reaching the point where that's no longer the case.

What this declining EROI means is that even though we have continually produced and consumed more energy (worldwide) and have large coal and natural gas resources, they will still not provide for the economic growth of the past.