Sentences with phrase «coal consumption needs»
By 2035, the IEA estimates that world coal consumption needs to fall by 30 percent from current levels, while global oil usage will have to drop by 12 percent.
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Despite science telling us that we need to take action now, coal has had its highest peak of consumption in 40 years in 2014.
Let's hope they do reduce their coal consumption as promised but with such an insatiable need for energy I doubt if these scenes will disappear for a decade or two
climatereason: Let's hope they do reduce their coal consumption as promised but with such an insatiable need for energy I doubt if these scenes will disappear for a decade or two
Despite science telling us that we need to take action now, coal has had its highest peak of consumption in 40 years in 2014.
By some estimates, a phase out of global fossil fuel consumption and production — particularly coal and oil — will need to be nearly complete within 50 years.
«We are making a huge investment in renewables... but even with the most aggressive solar, aggressive nuclear, aggressive hydro, we'll still need to double our coal consumption over the next 15 years.»
The new power link will supply enough capacity to meet the annual power consumption needs of over 10 million people, and will significantly help reduce coal consumption in the region, thus mitigating intense carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide emissions.
Dr Wheatley said more data was needed on actual fuel consumption at coal - fired power stations but there were several reasons for the inefficiencies of wind in abating emissions.
As is noted in the piece above, where Dr Wheatley says: «more data was needed on actual fuel consumption at coal - fired power stations».
«Given the dramatic fall in coal consumption, robust renewable energy uptake, and the urgent need to address air pollution, we believe the country can go well beyond what it has proposed today.»
The good news is that Smith says that while we need to impose a martial law on resource consumption (like oil, coal, bricks, mining and metal) it doesn't mean that we have to go without anything important.
The more we reduce our electricity consumption, the less coal we need to burn.
(1) Because of a growing concern over the possible consequences of global warming, which may be caused in part by increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (a major greenhouse gas), and also because of the need for accurate estimates of carbon dioxide emissions, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) has developed factors for estimating the amount of carbon dioxide emitted as a result of U.S. coal consumption.
Using IEA figures on energy consumption in the US for 2009, the 2 % of energy wasted in tossed food equates to about two big coal or nuclear power plants — so cutting waste equals eliminating the need for two power plants.