Sentences with phrase «coal boom ends»

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In a back to the future moment reminiscent of the 1990s tech boom, Chinese coal miner Yankuang Group is establishing an e-commerce platform focused entirely on selling high - end Australian products into fast - growing markets on the mainland.

In other words, China's coal - to - natural - gas boom will end before it has started.

A boom ending before it starts Experts say that if Chinese policymakers suspend coal - to - natural - gas project approval, the planned projects will not be able to move ahead.

Here's an excellent National Geographic feature by Jeff Smith, posted just a week ago, on the limits of India's coal resource, the environmental issues raised by its coal boom and the end of an era there when coal - fired power was cheap.

This is why «The End of China's Coal Boom,» a valuable new report from Greenpeace's East Asia office, is so refreshing and worth exploring.

Renewable sources of energy meet 40 % of the increase in primary demand and their explosive growth in the power sector marks the end of the boom years for coal.

[iii] G Pearse, «Quarry Vision: Coal, climate change, and the end of the resources boom», Quarterly Essay 33, Schwartz Media Pty Ltd, 2009, pp. 25 - 26, 43.

[vi] G Pearse, «Quarry Vision: Coal, climate change, and the end of the resources boom», Quarterly Essay 33, Schwartz Media Pty Ltd, 2009, pp. 87.

«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).