Sentences with phrase «coal burning in»

In the second part of the program, Maria Gunnoe and Kim Wasserman explored the connection between coal production in the mountains of Appalachia and coal burning in Chicago's power plants, as well as the human and environmental costs that accompany it.

Also, not one of them wants to talk about the massive increase in coal burning in China and India over the past 20 years, the result being a major increase in SO2 emissions.

A bit of digression, but can atmospheric warming have «stalled» because of the enormous emission of reflective aerosols from coal burning in China and India in the last decade or so?p class =» response» > [Response: In principle yes, but the evidence that more heat has gone into the ocean is very strong.

Recently, there have been debates about the slowing of the warming rates since 2005, with explanations (44 ⇓ — 46) ranging from increases in stratospheric water vapor and background aerosol to increased coal burning in the emergent economy of China of the past 20 y.

The next room highlights the role of coal burning in global warming, and offers an imposing real - life example: a 2 - ton rock of coal that visitors are free to touch.

What happened in China is that, as it industrialized, coal burning in open hearths and domestic stoves was replaced by coal burning in power stations to produce electricity.

Coal burning in power stations is far more efficient than smoky inefficent open hearths and consequently far less particulate carbon gets into the air from each ton of coal burnt.

In the rapidly urbanizing «third» world, that property, as well as exploitation of a local rather than an imported energy source, is driving its use and avoiding of some of the effects from coal burning in and around many Asian urban centers much in the news lately.

It estimates that coal burning in China was responsible for reducing the lives of 260,000 people in 2011.

Coal burning in China «produces heavy metal pollution and produces particulate pollution on a scale that is getting quite extraordinary,» she said.

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

In these cases, something happened (e.g., natural gas replaced some coal burning in the United States, the cost of solar technology has declined dramatically).

The latter is now known to have failed to include a significant amount of aerosols due, apparently, to coal burning in China.

@PA: They are opposed to fossil fuel burning in general and coal burning in particular.

They are opposed to fossil fuel burning in general and coal burning in particular.

Mr. Gore's mantra, like that of James Hansen, is ending coal burning in a hurry.

Between 2002 and 2012, CO2 emissions from coal burning in China increased by 4.5 billion [metric tons].

Various experts, including a nonpartisan panel at M.I.T., have said the world needs something like 10 FutureGen - style projects to be developed in the next decade or so if there is to be any hope that gas - trapping technology will play a meaningful role in stanching the tens of billions of tons of carbon dioxide that will be coming from coal burning in the next few decades.

But worldwide emissions have continued to swell, driven mainly by blistering economic growth and coal burning in Asia; debate over a new climate treaty has stalled; lawmakers of both parties have not embraced legislation aimed at cutting emissions; and polls show the public still largely disengaged.

Tracer measurements indicate that coal burning in North America and Europe was the likely source of these metals in the Arctic after 1860.

Although global mercury emissions continue to rise due largely to increases in coal burning in Asia, emissions in North America between 1990 and 2007 went down 2.8 percent per year, according to published studies in 2010 and 2013.

«If all the coal - burning power plants that are scheduled to be built over the next 25 years are built, the lifetime carbon dioxide emissions from those power plants will equal all the emissions from coal burning in all of human history to date,» says John Holdren, a professor of environmental policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

«China's central and western regions are rich in coal, and their environmental capacity is better than the Beijing - Hebei - Tianjin region, so we are encouraging them to develop coal - to - gas and to replace coal burning in eastern regions.»

The nation has already overtaken the U.S. as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter largely because of the more than three billion metric tons of coal it burns annually — and several thousand miners die each year digging up the dirty black rock to feed China's energy needs, not to mention the health toll taken by choking air pollution caused by coal burning in the Middle Kingdom, estimated by the World Bank to cost the country $ 100 billion a year in medical care.

Such climate changing pollution continues to increase — in 2010, the world emitted some 49 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases, thanks largely to increased coal burning in countries such as China.

Research on coal burning in China offers powerful evidence of air pollution's effect on public health

And, even if those targets are met, greenhouse gas pollution may remain: Rising prices for natural gas in the U.S. meant an uptick in coal burning in 2013 — and an attendant 2 percent rise in CO2 from electricity production.

And there has been plenty of coal burning in countries such as China, which now burns some 3 billion metric tons of the fuel rock per year, largely without the pollution controls that would scrub out the SO2, as is sometimes done in the U.S..

There will be no more coal burned in this office today, is that quite clear, Mr. Cratchit?»

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

That is equivalent to the weight of all the coal burned in the United States in seven months.

«China is the largest coal consumer in the world, but it burns much lower quality coal, such as brown coal, which has a lower heat value and carbon content compared to the coal burned in the US and Europe,» said Prof Guan.

The ash from the coal burned in the plant has been a disposed of behind a circular dam located on the floodplain of the Partizansk River.

The village headman, a man of about fifty, sat cross-legged in the centre of the room, close to the coals burning in a hearth that was hollowed out of the floor; he was inspecting my violin.

The 1,430,000 tons of coal burned in a typical 500 megawatt coal plant produces:

had taken place which led to unbridled amounts of coal burned in the big cities.

This news comes as research suggests coal burn in the US declined 2 % (y - o - y) in 2017.

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.

Much of the coal burned in Europe is lignite or hard coal — the most polluting kind.

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 carbon tax on coal burned in BC is $ 50 a tonne.

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.

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.

The coal destined for Fraser Surrey Docks, however, will be thermal coal, to be burned in power plants to generate electricity.

The really compelling argument for disallowing the coal supply chain through Fraser Surrey Docks is that it effectively undoes that achievement in emissions reduction if the same hydrocarbons end up being burned and vented into the atmosphere in China, where if anything environmental protections are more lax.

Coal has seen significant declines in recent years, accounting for just 9 % of electricity generation in 2016, down from around 23 % the year before, as coal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellCoal has seen significant declines in recent years, accounting for just 9 % of electricity generation in 2016, down from around 23 % the year before, as coal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellcoal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellets.

The sea levels are rising and we're burning coal to make buildings uncomfortably cold in 90 - degree weather

So we asked in our research: What would happen if current low natural gas prices or pollution control policies caused all US coal - burning power plants to be replaced by natural gas generators?

Air pollutants are the result of impurities in coal that, once burned, can become air - or water - borne hazards, including soot, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and mercury, all of which are regulated in the U.S..

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.