Sentences with phrase «coal burning»

In the long term, the committee argues that environmental regulations will squeeze the quantities of coal burnt in power stations.

The world is still warming as a result of coal burned in power stations that closed decades ago, and no one suggests that we should not worry about this.

The country is also pursuing demonstration projects in carbon capture and storage from coal burning power plants.

That build time is unacceptable if we are to retire coal burning power stations.

... Yes, we'll continue to have to burn coal, but it doesn't mean you have to increase that coal burning by that much.

It warns that the targets will remain far out of reach so long with continued exploitation of fossil fuels, such as coal burning for electricity and continued exploitation of unconventional oil and gas.

Just one of the ways that the government is trying to increase coal burning is the brown coal to hydrogen project announced only a short time before this «save the reef» package.

Furthermore, low coal prices in the near term will encourage long term investments in new coal burning facilities that would lock in decades of further demand for coal.

The fact that coal burning produces toxic emissions aside from its global warming impact should be enough reason alone to make that switch.

When coal burns, the chemical bonds holding its carbon atoms in place are broken, releasing energy.

In fact, some analysts predict that Chinese coal burning could begin to decline as early as next year.

Findings of thousands of scientists have determined that the biggest driver of warming of the planet and the resulting climate change is industrial - scale coal burning.

Yet, for the same energy production, coal burning releases more carbon into the air than burning oil and natural gas releases even less.

He said that coal use would be cut by 2.6 million tonnes and that measures will be taken to stop coal burning in the city and the surrounding areas.

Since then, cheap natural gas and shallow, easy - to - mine coal burned in traditional power plants have prevented the technique from taking off.

The volume of fly ash created by power plants is increasing, due to more coal burning coupled with more stringent air pollution rules.

Oil depletion could have a dramatic slowing effect on economic activity taking coal burning with it.

It's people burning the fields, it's fly ash from unregulated coal burning, it's every possible thing, all of which have solutions.

It doesn't matter if levels of coal burning were comparatively small prior to 1940.

Domestic coal burning plants are being phased out in both states.

As mentioned above, air pollution from coal burning is killing many thousands, or millions, of people world - wide each year and making even more very ill.

Compared to other methods of energy generation such as coal burning or natural gas extraction, wind power is much better.

This could easily explain the warming, and overwhelm any effect of coal burning during the same period.

Coal burning produced the devastating damage of acid rain.

Coal ash, the toxic remains of coal burning in power plants, is full of chemicals that cause cancer, developmental disorders and reproductive problems.

This is another reason why the effects of aerosols from coal burning were overwhelmed in this period.

So if we don't want more coal burned, we shouldn't increase its supply to market.

This trend was reinforced by the reciprocal climate deal that China struck with the Obama administration in November, under which China agreed to peak its carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and put a cap on coal burning by 2020.

Earlier this fall, the regional parliament adopted an air quality program, including a proposed ban on coal burning for households in Krakow starting in 2018.

China, the world's largest carbon dioxide (CO2) emitter, has been underestimating how much coal it burns by up to 17 % per year, The New York Times reports.

In addition, the world's largest coal user also announced that it would eliminate 20 gigawatts of present coal burning capacity.

And if we were still burning our coal without filtering out the sulfates it would counter the CO2 as Hansen suspects is happening with the hugely steep rise of dirty coal burning in China.

Gillette is the center of the largest coal producing region in the country, the Powder River Basin, which supplies about 40 percent of the thermal coal burned in the U.S. for power.

That meant coal burned in newer supercritical plants, natural gas, nuclear, tire burning, and existing 50 - year - old hydroelectric plants all counted — and they already made up more than two - thirds of supply.

This, they argue, can only be achieved by phasing out all conventional coal burning by 2030, and by aggressively reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by capturing it in growing tropical forests and in agricultural soils.

The World Coal Association encourages a plan to incorporate cleaner coal burning technologies into India's energy mix in order to meet the country's huge development issues and ambitions.