Sentences with phrase «coal fires in homes»

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For instance, London was engulfed in a miasma of toxic fumes from coal - fired home heating in the 1870s, and nobody could come up with a solution.

i had the bulk of it prepped early in the afternoon (rice, sweet potato and dressing, chickpeas in sauce in a bowl ready to cook) and when the hubs came home i fired up the grill, grabbed my cast iron skillet and cooked the last minute fresh stuff right on the coals and threw it all together right there!!

There are approximately 30 billion square feet (2.8 billion square meters) of expansive, flat roofs in the U.S., an area large enough to collect the sunlight needed to power 16 million American homes, or replace 38 conventional coal - fired power plants.

In terms of infrastructure, such big solar fits as comfortably as a coal - fired power plant in the traditional electricity business model, which involves large plants transmitting electricity over a grid of conducting lines through transformers and into individual homes and businesseIn terms of infrastructure, such big solar fits as comfortably as a coal - fired power plant in the traditional electricity business model, which involves large plants transmitting electricity over a grid of conducting lines through transformers and into individual homes and businessein the traditional electricity business model, which involves large plants transmitting electricity over a grid of conducting lines through transformers and into individual homes and businesses.

It remains to be seen whether President - elect Barack Obama will resuscitate FutureGen, an advanced coal - fired power plant that was set to be located in his home state of Illinois.

It is home to a large coal - fired electric power plant that consumed up to 3,500 tons of coal per day since it began operating in the early 1950s.

Coal - fired power plants work hard to heat and cool homes, but burning coal releases carbon dioxide that will need to be managed in the futCoal - fired power plants work hard to heat and cool homes, but burning coal releases carbon dioxide that will need to be managed in the futcoal releases carbon dioxide that will need to be managed in the future.

Vyleta's Smoke draws inspiration from the very real issue of smog in Victorian London, the result of fog off the Thames river mixing with smoke from early industrialization and coal - burning fires in homes.

(Since the banning of home coal - fires in 1956, London is no longer foggy.)

Since these dollars are not going into home building, coal - fired electric plants or auto factories, they end up in the stock market.

The maid's daily chores, such as laying coal fires or polishing silver, cumulatively create a sense of the activity in a grand home in the 19th century.

in 5 years or so, when the rolling blackouts begin in american cities due to power shortages, we'll be wishing we had built those coal - fired plants at home.

To change how we power our homes and offices, we will invest more in zero - emission coal - fired plants, revolutionary solar and wind technologies, and clean, safe nuclear energy.

In addition to generating some 113 MW of clean, renewable electricity — enough to supply at least 40,000 homes — bringing the project to fruition will result in the avoidance of some 300,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions as compared to coal - fired power generatiIn addition to generating some 113 MW of clean, renewable electricity — enough to supply at least 40,000 homes — bringing the project to fruition will result in the avoidance of some 300,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions as compared to coal - fired power generatiin the avoidance of some 300,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions as compared to coal - fired power generation

From 2001 to 2010, land - use carbon emissions from palm oil in Indonesia averaged 216 to 268 million tons — that's equivalent to the emissions from 45 to 55 million cars, 56 to 70 coal - fired power plants, or the annual energy use from 20 to 25 million homes.

However, new research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that while gasoline cars pollute closer to home, coal - fired power actually pollutes more — a lot more.

While Republican lawmakers in Washington have fought to protect coal - fired power plants, opposing President Barack Obama's efforts to curtail climate - warming carbon emissions, data show their home states are often the ones benefiting most from the nation's accelerating shift to renewable energy.

The noxious air quality that plagues so much of Poland is directly attributable to coal — not only from the many coal - fired power plants that pepper the country's landscape, but from the coal still used widely in home heating systems.

A girl makes her way to her home near a coal - fired power plant in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, China, on Jan. 28, 2015.

The project would be the first LNG export facility ever built so close to so many homes, the first built in close proximity to Marcellus Shale fracking operations, and a potential trigger of more global warming pollution than all seven of Maryland's existing coal - fired power plants combined.

Global Wind Energy Council, Global Wind 2008 Report (Brussels: 2009), pp. 3, 56; Erik Shuster, Tracking New Coal - Fired Power Plants (Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Energy Technology Laboratory, January 2009); «Nuclear Dips in 2008,» World Nuclear News, 29 May 2009; 1 megawatt of installed wind capacity produces enough electricity to supply 300 homes from American Wind Energy Association, «U.S. Wind Energy Installations Reach New Milestone,» press release (Washington, DC: 14 August 2006); number of homes calculated using average U.S. household size from U.S. Census Bureau, «2005 — 2007 American Community Survey 3 - Year Estimates — Data Profile Highlights,» at factfinder.census.gov / servlet / ACSSAFFFacts, viewed 9 April 2009, and population from U.S. Census Bureau, State & Country QuickFacts, electronic database, at quickfacts.census.gov, updated 20 February 2009.

For example, your home's electricity might seem clean because the air pollution is actually at the coal - fired power plant and not in your neighborhood, or the cheap single - use products that depend on horrible or toxic working conditions in another country, as well as the relatively cost - free (to the manufacturer and seller) disposal of those products.

These were caused through the burning of coa lin Coal Fired Electricity Power Stations in my Native England and in fire - places in most of the homes in England just after the Second World War and well after this war.

Obama started with the «necessarily more expense» and «they can build it but we will bankrupt them» memes without considering that each percentage increase in coal fired efficiency has a 2 % reduction in emissions.; A relatively inexpensive coal fired power plant providing electric and heating hot water can be 60 % efficient in the proper season while providing electricity to replace coal, charcoal, etc. for home use.

«Across the Midwest and the Great Plains, in states like Iowa and South Dakota that already get 20 percent of their energy from wind sources, clean energy is powering homes, putting people back to work, and protecting families from dangerous and expensive coal - fired power plants,» said Kerwin Olson, Executive Director of Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana.